Creoles of color of the Gulf South

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 c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Origins of New Orleans's free Creoles of color / Kimberly S. Hanger -- The free Creoles of color of the antebellum gulf ports of Mobile and Pensacola : a struggle for the middle ground / Virginia Meacham Gould -- Socioeconomic dynamics among the Gulf Creole populations : the antebellum and Civil War years / Loren Schweninger -- Creoles of color in Louisiana's bayou country, 1766-1877 / Carl Brasseaux -- Mardi Gras in l'anse de prien noir : a Creole community performance in rural French Louisiana / Nicholas R. Spitzer -- Zydeco/zarico : the term and the tradition / Barry Jean Ancelet -- The place of Louisiana Creole among New World French Creoles / Albert Valdman -- Ethnicity and identity : Creoles of color in twentieth-century south Louisiana / James H. Dormon.