Value Retention Among Young Creoles

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Creoles
ISBN : 0889466300

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Value Retention Among Young Creoles by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frances Jerome Woods
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015032355508

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Value Retention Among Young Creoles by Frances Jerome Woods Pdf

This is an attempt to chart the efforts of a Creole people to establish an identity of their own, to transmit to successive generations the values and attitudes deemed important to the group, and to give their youth - some of whom were labelled coloured in the Deep South - feelings of belongingness and status.

Author : James H. Dormon
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0870499173

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Creoles of Color of the Gulf South by James H. Dormon Pdf

Eight essays explore the social and historical foundations of mixed-race people in Louisiana and along the US coast of the Gulf of Mexico, specific features of Gulf Creole culture, and ethnic and identity developments during the 20th century. The cultural features include Mardi Gras, zydeco music, and the place of the language in the larger New World French Creole. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Carl A. Brasseaux,Claude F. Oubre,Keith P. Fontenot
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781628468182

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Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country by Carl A. Brasseaux,Claude F. Oubre,Keith P. Fontenot Pdf

Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first families of southwestern Louisiana. Yet in both antebellum and postbellum periods they remained a people considered apart from the rest of the population. Historians, demographers, sociologists, and anthropologists have given them only scant attention. This probing book, focused on the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, is the first to scrutinize this multiracial group through a close study of primary resource materials. During the antebellum period they were excluded from the state's three-tiered society—white, free people of color, and slaves. Yet Creoles of Color were a dynamic component in the region's economy, for they were self-compelled in efforts to become an integral part of the community. Though not accepted by white society, they were unwilling to be classified as black. Imitating their white neighbors, many were Catholic, spoke the French language, and owned slaves. After the Civil War, some Creoles of Color, being light-skinned, passed for white. Others relocated to safe agricultural enclaves, becoming even more clannish and isolated from general society.

Author : Thomas Klingler
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0807127795

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If I Could Turn My Tongue Like That by Thomas Klingler Pdf

If I Could Turn My Tongue Like That, by Thomas Klingler, is an in-depth study of the Creole language spoken in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, a community situated on the west bank of the Mississippi River above Baton Rouge that dates back to the early eighteenth century. The first comprehensive grammatical description of this particular variety of Louisiana Creole, Klingler's work is timely indeed, since most Creole speakers in the Pointe Coupee area are over sixty-five and the language is not being passed on to younger generations. It preserves and explains an important yet little understood part of America's cultural heritage that is rapidly disappearing. The heart of the book is a detailed morphosyntactic description based on some 150 hours of interviews with Pointe Coupee Creole speakers. Each grammatical feature is amply illustrated with contextual examples, and Klingler's descriptive framework will facilitate comparative research. The author also provides historical and sociolinguistic background information on the region, examining economic, demographic, and social conditions that contributed to the formation and spread of Creole in Louisiana. Pointe Coupee Creole is unusual, and in some cases unique, because of such factors as the parish's early exposure to English, its rapid development of a plantation economy, and its relative insulation from Cajun French. The volume concludes with transcriptions and English translations of Creole folk tales and of Klingler's conversations with Pointe Coupee's residents, a treasure trove of cultural and linguistic raw data. This kind of rarely printed material will be essential in preserving Creole in the future. Encylopedic in its approach and featuring a comprehensive bibliography, If I Could Turn My Tongue Like That is a rich resource for those interested in the development of Louisiana Creole and in Francophony.

Author : Julius O. Adekunle,Hettie V. Williams
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761850922

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Color Struck by Julius O. Adekunle,Hettie V. Williams Pdf

Color Struck: Essays of Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective is a compilation of expositions on race and ethnicity, written from multiple disciplinary approaches including history, sociology, women's studies, and anthropology. This book is organized around a topical, chronological framework and is divided into three sections, beginning with the earliest times to the contemporary world. The term 'race' has nearly become synonymous with the word 'ethnicity,' given the most recent findings in the study of human genetics that have led to the mapping of human DNA. Color Struck attempts to answer questions and provide scholarly insight into issues related to race and ethnicity.

Author : Mark F. DeWitt
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781628467758

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Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California by Mark F. DeWitt Pdf

Queen Ida, Danny Poullard, documentary filmmaker Les Blank, Chris Strachwitz, and Arhoolie Records. These are names that are familiar to many fans of Cajun music and zydeco, and they have one other thing in common—-longtime residence in the San Francisco Bay Area. They are all part of a vibrant scene of dancing and live Louisiana-French music that has evolved over several decades. Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California traces how this region of California has been able to develop and sustain dances several times a week with more than a dozen bands. Description of this active regional scene opens into a discussion of several historical trends that have affected life and music in Louisiana and the nation. The book portrays the diversity of people who have come together to adopt Cajun and Creole dance music as a way to cope with a globalized, media-saturated world. Ethnomusicologist Mark F. DeWitt innovatively weaves together interviews with musicians and dancers (some from Louisiana, some not), analysis of popular media, participant observation as a musician and dancer, and historical perspectives from wartime black migration patterns, the civil rights movement, American folk and blues revivals, California counterculture, and the rise of cultural tourism in “Cajun Country.” In so doing, he reveals the multifaceted appeal of celebrating life on the dance floor, Louisiana-French style.

Author : Andrew Jolivétte
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780739118962

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Louisiana Creoles by Andrew Jolivétte Pdf

Louisiana Creoles examines the recent efforts of the Louisiana Creole Heritage Center to document and preserve the distinct ethnic heritage of this unique American population. Dr. Andrew Joliv tte uses sociological inquiry to analyze the factors that influence ethnic and racial identity formation and community construction among Creoles of Color living in and out of the state of Louisiana. By including the voices of contemporary Creole organizations, preservationists, and grassroots organizers, Joliv tte offers a comprehensive and insightful exploration of the ways in which history has impacted the ability of Creoles to self-define their own community in political, social, and legal contexts. This book raises important questions concerning the process of cultural formation and the politics of ethnic categories for multiracial communities in the United States. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina the themes found throughout Louisiana Creoles are especially relevant for students of sociology and those interested in identity issues.

Author : Andrew Jolivétte
Publisher : AltaMira Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780759114142

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Cultural Representation in Native America by Andrew Jolivétte Pdf

Today as in the past there are many cultural and commercial representations of American Indians that, thoughtlessly or otherwise, negatively shape the images of indigenous people. JolivZtte and his co-authors challenge and contest these images, demonstrating how Native representation and identity are at the heart of Native politics and Native activism. In portrayals of a Native Barbie Doll or a racist mascot, disrespect of Native women, misconceptions of mixed race identities, or the commodification of all things 'Indian', the authors reveal how the very existence of Native people continues to be challenged, with harmful repercussions in social and legal policy, not just in popular culture. The authors re-articulate Native history, religion, identity, and oral and literary traditions in ways that allow the true identity and persona of the Native person to be recognized and respected. It is a project that is fundamental to ethnic revitalization and the recognition of indigenous rights in North America. This book is a provocative and essential introduction for students and Native and non-Native people who wish to understand the images and realities of American Indian lifeways in American society.

Author : Mary Christine Morkovsky, CDP
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781462812448

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Living in God's Providence: History of the Congregation of Divine Providence of San Antonio, Texas, 1943-2000 by Mary Christine Morkovsky, CDP Pdf

In 1943 the bell attached to a rope on both floors of a plain box-like convent in Houston, Texas, rang at 5 a.m. The nine Sisters of Divine Providence stationed at the grade school arose, reciting aloud the traditional prayer that began “Live, Jesus, in my heart! My God, I give you my heart. Mercifully deign to receive it and grant that no creature shall possess it but Thou alone.” Continuing to pray aloud for five more minutes, the Sisters who shared small bedrooms began to dress. All had developed in their novitiate a rhythm for this process, which launched each day in a uniform way. Over 20 items of dress had to be donned in a certain order. Before Morning Prayer at 5:25 in the small chapel on the first floor, the Sisters also stripped their single beds, flipped the thin mattresses, and replaced the bed linens, trying not to invade a companion’s limited space. Usually it was still dark outside when they started to recite morning prayers unique to the Congregation. This was followed by chanting in Latin on one tone Matins, Lauds, Prime, Tierce, Sext, and None from the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Then the superior read aloud some points for reflection, and the Sisters meditated in silence for half an hour. This was the first time of the day they had some relatively unstructured time, and they sometimes experienced “distractions.” Perhaps they planned how to teach something better or recalled problematic students. At 6:30 one of the parish priests offered Mass, which was followed by breakfast. The Sisters ate in silence while one of them read passages from the Imitation of Christ. By 8 a.m. they were leading their pupils across the playground to the children’s daily Mass in the parish church. In sharp contrast, in 1990 Sister Mary Walter Gutowski, CDP, one of two Sisters living in a small apartment, was the administrator of Our Lady of Guadalupe clinic for low income Latinos and African Americans in Rosenberg, Texas. Sister Walter, who was credited with having delivered more than 3,000 babies under difficult rural circumstances, once remarked, “When someone knocks at my door in the middle of the night, I get dressed in two minutes flat because I never know what will be waiting for me outside.”1 What explains this dramatic change of style and ritual in the routines of Catholic Sisters living in mission houses? How did the Sisters move from cloisters to apartments? How did the rigid routines of the nine Sisters of 1943 transmute into the singular and unstructured life of Sister Mary Walter? What are the connections between the bell that rang at five in the morning and the one that sounded at any hour? This history examines the period of 1943 to 2000, an era during which the Sisters of Divine Providence redefined their perspective and practices within the context of a changing American Catholic church. It demonstrates that the Sisters were well situated to embrace the shifting demands of religious mission because their very heritage was grounded in ongoing transformations. Those transformations were played out on a highly charged stage of oppression concerning multi-racial relationships, one that further prepared the Sisters for the intense dynamics of modern church life. When the Sisters celebrated in 1966 the centennial of their arrival in Texas, they were staffing their own college, high schools, and numerous grammar schools in several states as well as hospitals, clinics, and neighborhood centers. They had incorporated a group of women from Mexico and encouraged the independence of a new Providence congregation in the U.S. Responding to Vatican encouragement, after the second Vatican Council they began experiments to update structures and customs so as minister more effectively. The most visible were in the areas of community living and governance and were accompanied by greater collegiality, subsidiarity, variety in prayer

Author : Tom William Smith,Bradley J. Arnold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : General social surveys
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043164909

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Annotated Bibliography of Papers Using the General Social Surveys by Tom William Smith,Bradley J. Arnold Pdf

Author : Jerry Jensen,Larry C. Jensen
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0773482652

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Families--the Key to a Prosperous and Compassionate Society for the 21st Century by Jerry Jensen,Larry C. Jensen Pdf

This is a cross-disciplinary social policy text with the central theme that a successful nation for the 21st century requires highly motivated, moral and educated citizens. The authors link problems of the urban ghetto to falling educational standards and the weakening of the family.

Author : William H. Swatos
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0761989560

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Encyclopedia of Religion and Society by William H. Swatos Pdf

As the new millennium approaches, the sacred and profane interface, conflict, and intermingle in novel ways. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society provides a guide map for these developments. From succinct, brief notes to essay-length entries, it covers world religions, religious perspectives on political and social issues, and religious leaders and scholars -- present and past -- in the United States and the world. This comprehensive volume is an essential reference for studies in the anthropology, psychology, politics, and sociology of religion. Topics include: abortion, adolescence, African-American religious experience, anthropology of religion, Buddhism, commitment, conversion, definition of religion, ecology movement, Emile Durkheim, ethnicity, fundamentalism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, new religious movements, organization, parish, Talcott Parsons, racism, research methods, Roman Catholicism, sexism, Unification Church, Max Weber, and many others.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Humanities
ISBN : MSU:31293009632807

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Humanities by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pierre Hégy
Publisher : Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Individualism
ISBN : UCSC:32106010676051

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Myth as Foundation for Society and Values by Pierre Hégy Pdf

Knowledge, business, politics and defence would be impossible on a national scale without the inner horizon of common values, which locate people within the limits of what is feasible and permissible. Values are rooted in myth and defined in this text as that which is said as in Homer, but also as the inner rationality of our everyday discourse.