Description: "Louisiana Creole Peoplehood is a multivocal and collectively structured volume that intervenes against the erasure of Creole Indigeneity while foregrounding Black/Indian cultural sustainability. Divided into sections focused on sacred history, land, language, and cultural practices, contributors engage themes as varied as foodways, queer identity, health, historical trauma, gender, language revitalization, and diaspora. Offering up an understanding of Creole community identity formation and practice at the intersections of both African and Indigenous diasporas, the book combines scholarly analysis with interviews, essays, and autobiographic contributions-including integrating the perspectives of community members in response essays. Louisiana Creole Peoplehood explores the vital ways Afro-Indigenous peoples are asserting their right to exist amidst the backdrops of settler colonialism, anti-Black racism while promoting communal dialogue and community reciprocity"--
Brief description: Rain Prud'homme-Cranford is assistant professor of english at the University of Calgary. She is the author of Miscegenation Round Dance: Poèmes Historiques (Mongrel Empire Press, 2020) and Smoked Mullet Cornbread Crawdad Memory: Collected Poems & Recipes (Mongrel Empire Press, 2012).
Review Quotes:
"Creatively puts writings by scholars into conversation with community responders. . . The scope of themes encompassed in this book--language, food, health, gender, and ceremony--is impressive. So is the occupational and geographical range of its contributors--whether they be poets, educators, and activists working inside Louisiana or scholars teaching diverse disciplines at distant universities."
-- "Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal"