Background
Brasseaux, Carl Anthony was born on August 19, 1951 in Opelousas, Louisiana, United States. Son of Ferdinand and Odile Valajean (Johnson) Brasseaux.
( Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first familie...)
Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first families of southwestern Louisiana. Yet in both antebellum and postbellum periods they remained a people considered apart from the rest of the population. Historians, demographers, sociologists, and anthropologists have given them only scant attention. This probing book, focused on the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, is the first to scrutinize this multiracial group through a close study of primary resource materials. During the antebellum period they were excluded from the state’s three-tiered society―white, free people of color, and slaves. Yet Creoles of Color were a dynamic component in the region’s economy, for they were self-compelled in efforts to become an integral part of the community. Though not accepted by white society, they were unwilling to be classified as black. Imitating their white neighbors, many were Catholic, spoke the French language, and owned slaves. After the Civil War some Creoles of Color, being light-skinned, passed for white. Others relocated to safe agricultural enclaves, becoming even more clannish and isolated from general society.
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(Crevasse is a written and pictorial view of the 1927 Floo...)
Crevasse is a written and pictorial view of the 1927 Flood in Acadiana Louisiana. This book gives a lot of background material on both the earlier flooding and the geological history of the areas in Louisiana affected by the flood (near the Mississippi River). Levees broke, people fled and refugees were inoculated from possible cholera and other diseases associated with unsanitary living conditions. This book is out of print and a gem, especially for Louisiana history buffs and those interested in flood control.
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(This book is the first to examine comprehensively the dem...)
This book is the first to examine comprehensively the demographic growth, cultural evolution, and political involvement of Louisiana's large Acadian community between the time of the Louisiana Purchase (1803), when the transplanted culture began to take on a decidedly Louisiana character, and 1877, the end of Reconstruction in Louisiana, when traditional distinctions between Acadians and neighboring groups had ceased to be valid. Serving as a model for ethnohistories of other nonliterate peoples, Acadian to Cajun reveals how authentic cultural history can be derived from alternative historical resources when primary materials such as newspapers, correspondence, and diaries are not available. Here, Carl A. Brasseaux assembles a composite picture of this large Cajun community. From civil records, federal census reports, ecclesiastical registers, legislative acts, and electoral returns, he reveals the astonishing cultural transformation of the Acadians of Nova Scotia into the Cajuns of Louisiana.
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( In this penetrating study, Carl Brasseaux looks beyond ...)
In this penetrating study, Carl Brasseaux looks beyond long-standing mythology to provide a critical account of early Acadian culture in Louisiana and the reasons for its survival. He convincingly dispels many received notions about the routes Acadians traveled from Nova Scotia to Louisiana, their original settlement sites, and the patterns of their subsequent migrations within the state, and closely examines the relations of Louisiana's Acadians with their black, Spanish, Indian, and Creole neighbors. In adapting to subtropical Louisiana, with its turmoil of alternating French and Spanish regimes, the Acadians exhibited industry, pragmatism, individualism, and the ability to close ranks in the face of a general threat. As Brasseaux reveals, Acadians' cohesiveness and insularity preserved the core elements of their culture and helped them adjust to new physical and social demands.
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( Cajun foods such as gumbo, crawfish étouffée, and boudi...)
Cajun foods such as gumbo, crawfish étouffée, and boudin are increasingly popular, yet relatively little is known about the history of this fascinating cooking tradition. Stir the Pot explores how Cajun cuisine originated in a seventeenth-century French settlement in Nova Scotia and came to be extremely popular on the American dining scene over the past few decades. From debunking myths about Cajun cooking to exploring the fascinating place that food holds in everyday life and special occasions in Acadia, the authors present the complex history of this well-loved ethnic cuisine in a most palatable manner. Includes sections on "The Evolution of Cajun Cuisine," "The Role of Food in Cajun Society," and "The Cajun Culinary Landscape" as well as a glossary of terms and extensive bibliographic resources.
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academic administrator curator educator historian
Brasseaux, Carl Anthony was born on August 19, 1951 in Opelousas, Louisiana, United States. Son of Ferdinand and Odile Valajean (Johnson) Brasseaux.
Bachelor in Political Science cum laude, University Southwestern Louisiana, 1974. Master of Arts in History, University Southwestern Louisiana, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy summa cum laude, University Paris, 1982.
Assistant director Center Louisiana Studies University Louisiana at Lafayette, 1975—2000, director, since 2003, member graduate faculty, since 1987, manager information system Center Louisiana Studies, since 1985, curator colonial records collection Center Louisiana Studies, since 1980, assistant professor department history, 1991-1994, associate professor department history, 1994-1998, distinguished university professor, since 1995. Director University Louisiana at Lafayette, Center Cultural and Eco Tourism, since 2001. Professor department history University Louisiana at Lafayette, since 1998.
Consultant Louisiana Park Service, Baton Rouge, 1984, National Park Service, Washington, 1987-1988, United States Corps. Engineers, New Orleans, 1995. Adjunct assistant professor department history University Southwestern Louisiana, 1987-1990.
Visiting professor University Laval, Quebec, summer 1994.
(This book is the first to examine comprehensively the dem...)
( In this penetrating study, Carl Brasseaux looks beyond ...)
( Cajun foods such as gumbo, crawfish étouffée, and boudi...)
( Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first familie...)
(Crevasse is a written and pictorial view of the 1927 Floo...)
(Illustrated with maps and approximately 250 black and whi...)
(Book by Brasseaux, Carl A., Conrad, Glenn R.)
(Book by Brasseaux, Carl A.)
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Member Southeastern Columbus Quincentenary Communications, 1987-1992. Fellow Louisiana History Association (President's Memorial award 1986), French Colonial History Society (book prize 1987, Louisiana Writer of Year, 2003, Literary award, 2005, Louisiana Humanist of Year, 2005 ).
Married Glenda M. Melancon, July 21, 1973. Children: Ryan André, David Marc, Aimée Elizabeth.