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From "Acadien" to "Cajun" to "Cadien" : Ethnic Labelization and Construction of Identity

Author: Henry, Jacques

Date: 1998 July

Publication: Journal of American Ethnic History

Volume: 17

Language: English, with some franÃ§ais

Find in a Library: 478200962, 209676066

An essay on the origins and historical transformation of the term "Cajun" in the context of French Louisiana. An historical etymology of "Cajun" and an analysis of its usage from its 17th century iterations to those of the present day. An attempt at…

Tags: Abbeville LA, Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Alabama, Creoles, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Houma LA, Lafayette LA, Language and Linguistics, Louisiana, Mississippi, Mississippi River Valley, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Ethnic Studies, Texas

The Cajuns : Americanization of a People

Author: Bernard, Shane

Date: 2003

Language: English

Find in a Library: 49618900

Find Online: OL2988647W

A history of twentieth-century Southern Louisiana by way of an exploration of the processes of assimilation experienced its people of French and Acadian heritage. Descripions of the transformations of Louisiana Cajuns and Cajun culture, as well as…