Creole Louisiana
Date Submitted: 09/09/2006 23:43:59
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 11 pages (2968 words)
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 11 pages (2968 words)
In 1970 the state of Louisiana's Bureau of Vital Statistics decided that 1/32 Negro blood was the diving line between white and black. (Dominquez) They then informed the public that any form of Negro blood was the legal basis for blackness. In addition modern genetic studies show that blacks in the United States average 25 percent white genes and that whites average 5 percent black genes. (Woods) Consequently, how are we to decide who constitutes as White American, Black …
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…Portraits. Louisiana State University Press, 1973 reprint 2001.
Dominguez, Virgina. White by Definition: Social
Classification in Creole Louisiana. Rutgers University Press, 1986.
Woods, Frances Jerome. Marginality and Identity: A Colored
Creole Family through Ten Generations. Louisiana State University Press, 1972.
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Louisiana. Contributed by Carl Anthony Brasseaux and
John Michael Caldwell. Microsoft Corporation. 2003.
Louisiana Creole Heritage Center. <Tab/>http://www.nsula.edu/creole
Encyclopedia of Cajun Culture: Creole.
http://www.cajunculture.com/Other/creole.htm
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