Our People and Our History: Fifty Creole Portraits
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Translated and Edited by Sister Dorothea Olga McCants, Daughter of the Cross.
In OUR PEOPLE AND OUR HISTORY, originally published in French in 1911 and translated into English in 1973, Rodolphe Lucien Desdune records the lives of fifty prominent Creoles who lived in New Orleans at the end of the nineteenth century. Although he received little formal education, Desdunes--himself a Creole--was an articulate observer of his times and culture. His portraits of black doctors, lawyers, teachers, musicians, artists, and writers are powerful evidence of the extraordinary role that Creoles played in the cultural and political history of Louisiana.
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Text: English, French (translation)
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Our People and Our History: Fifty Creole Portraits
Our People and Our History: Fifty Creole Portraits,Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes,Dorothea Olga McCants,Louisiana State University Press,080712740X,Biography,Blacks In The U.S.,Creoles,Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General,Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor,History,History - U.S.,History: American,Louisiana,Louisiana - Local History,Minority Studies - Ethnic American,People of Color,United States - State & Local - General,American history: c 1800 to c 1900,Cultural studies,Ethnic studies,History of specific racial & ethnic groups,Social & cultural anthropology,c 1700 to c 1800,c 1800 to c 1900
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