Creole : the history and legacy of Louisiana's free people of color

This is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary history of Louisiana's Creole population. Written by scholars, many of Creole descent, the book wrangles with the stuff of legend and conjecture whilst fostering an appreciation for the Creole contribution to the American mosaic.

People of color in Louisiana / Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson -- Marcus Christian's treatment of Les gens de couleur libre / Violet Harrington Bryan -- Plaçage and the Louisiana Gens de couleur libre : how race and sex defined the lifestyles of free women of color / Joan M. Martin -- Composers of color of nineteenth-century New Orleans : the history behind the music / Lester Sullivan -- Yankee hugging the Creole : reading Dion Boucicault's The octoroon / Jennifer DeVere Brody -- Use of Louisiana Creole in Southern literature / Sybil Kein -- Marie Laveau : the voodoo queen repossessed / Barbara Rosendale Duggal -- New Orleans Creole expatriates in France : romance and reality / Michel Fabre -- Visible means of support : businesses, professions, and trades of free people of color / Mary Gehman -- Origin of Louisiana Creole / Fehintola Mosadomi -- Louisiana Creole food culture : Afro-Caribbean links / Sybil Kein -- Light, bright, and damn near white : race, the politics of genealogy, and the strange case of Susie Guillory / Anthony G. Barthelemy -- Creole poets on the verge of a nation / Caroline Senter -- "Lost boundaries" : racial passing and poverty in segregated New Orleans / Arthé A. Anthony -- Creole culture in the poetry of Sybil Kein /r Mary L. Morton.