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UNINA9910455222303321 |
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Autore |
Bernard Shane K |
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Titolo |
The Cajuns [[electronic resource] ] : Americanization of a people / / Shane K. Bernard |
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Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-48489-3 |
9786612484896 |
1-60473-496-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (221 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cajuns - History |
Cajuns - Cultural assimilation |
Cajuns - Ethnic identity |
Americanization |
Electronic books. |
United States Ethnic relations |
Louisiana Ethnic relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Enlargement of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Louisiana at Lafayette. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-182) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cajuns during wartime -- Atomic-age Cajuns -- Cajuns and the 1960s -- From coonass to Cajun power -- Exploitation and revitalization. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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History -- Southern Studies-->. The past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained strikingly distinct. The Cajuns: Americanization of a People explores these six decades and analyzes the forces that had an impact on Louisiana's Acadiana. In the 1940's, when America entered World War II, so too did the isolated Cajuns. Cajun soldiers fought alongside troops from Brooklyn and Berkeley and absorbed aspects of new cultures. In the 1950's as rock 'n' roll |
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