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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455222303321

Autore

Bernard Shane K

Titolo

The Cajuns [[electronic resource] ] : Americanization of a people / / Shane K. Bernard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2003

ISBN

1-282-48489-3

9786612484896

1-60473-496-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Disciplina

305.84/10763

Soggetti

Cajuns - History

Cajuns - Cultural assimilation

Cajuns - Ethnic identity

Americanization

Electronic books.

United States Ethnic relations

Louisiana Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Enlargement of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-182) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cajuns during wartime -- Atomic-age Cajuns -- Cajuns and the 1960s -- From coonass to Cajun power -- Exploitation and revitalization.

Sommario/riassunto

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