The Cajuns: Americanization of a People

by Shane K. Bernard

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578065232
• ISBN13: 9781578065233
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"