Cajuns during wartime -- Atomic-age Cajuns -- Cajuns and the 1960s -- From coonass to Cajun power -- Exploitation and revitalization
Summary
History -- Southern Studies-- & . The past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained strikingly distinct. The Cajuns: Americanization of a People explores these six decades and analyzes the forces that had an impact on Louisiana's Acadiana. In the 1940s, when America entered World War II, so too did the isolated Cajuns. Cajun soldiers fought alongside troops from Brooklyn and Berkeley and absorbed aspects of new cultures. In the 1950s as rock 'n' roll
Notes
Enlargement of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-182) and index
