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On this portion of our site will consist of books as they relate to creole history and geneology. This list of recomended books is suggestive only, however they will provide a very good insite into the history of the Creole people:

Good reading material (Recomended)

A. Lalita Tademy transforms her genealogy into
    an absorbing novel about four generations of
    slave women."
    
    Cane River
    By Lalita Tademy
    Warner Books, 432 pp., $24.95

    Lalita Tademy was profiled in SV Magazine last year. To read the article, go to:

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Other creole related books:

 

 

 

Creole books


    THE FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR OF NEW ORLEANS by Margaret Gehman SoftCov $10.00

    THE CREOLE by Lucien St. Andre , Hardback $10.00
  
    NO OTHER WORLD by Norman German (SoftCover) Fiction written of the
    life of Marie Therese Coincoin of Cane River $10.00

    YOU CAN LEARN CREOLE - The Mandingo Press (Gilbert Martin)
    Authors McConnell & Swan (SoftCover) (Two Books) $15.00

    THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE - Cane River’s Creoles of Color (SoftCover)
    By Gary Mills $15.00

    CREOLES OF COLOR OF THE BAYOU STATES (can be ordered) Softback
 
    CREOLES OF COLOR OF THE GULF STATES (can be ordered) Softback

    WHITE BY DEFINITION By Dominguez (can be ordered) Hard or Softback

 

    *****Offered By Marion I. Ferreira, Redbino9@aol.com, P.O. Box 43313, Los Angeles, CA 90043
    Send Money Orders only and add $5.00 shipping charge. Note There are 5 books of The Free     People of Color of New Orleans, All others are singles. Other books can be ordered if needed.     There are others that will be listed in the future.



1...      LOUISIANA CREOLE DICTIONARY
             Albert Valdman, Thomas Klingler,
             Margaret Marshall, and Kevin Rottet.
             1998-Louisiana State University Press.

2...        BOUNDED LIVES, BOUNDED PLACES:
             FREE BLACK SOCIETY INCOLONIAL NEW ORLEANS
             1769-1803 by Kimberley Hanger.
             1997-Duke University Press.

3...        REVOLUTION, ROMANTICISM, AND THE
             AFRO-CREOLE PROTEST TRADITION IN LOUISIANA
             1718-1868 Caryn Cosse Bell. 1997
             Louisiana State University Press.

4...        THE NEGRO IN LOUISIANA: ASPECTS OF HIS
             HISTORY AND LITERATURE
             Charles Barthelemy Rousseve.
             1937-Xavier University Press.

5...        RACE AND DEMOCRACY: THE CIVIL RIGHTS
             STRUGGLE IN LOUISIANA
             1915-1972 Adam Fairclough.
             1995-University of Georgia Press.

6...        THE SECOND BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS: THE HUNDRED YEARS
             STRUGGLE TO INTEGRATE THE SCHOOLS
             Liva Baker 1996 HarperCollins.

7...        LOUISIANA'S BLACK HERITAGE
             Robert MacDonald, John Kemp And Edward Haas
             1979-Louisiana State Museum.

8...        CREOLE NEW ORLEANS: RACE AND AMERICANIZATION. Edited by
             Arnold Hirsch and Joseph Logsdon. 1992-Louisiana State University Press.

9...        WHITE BY DEFINITION: SOCIAL CLASSIFICATION IN CREOLE LOUISIANA
             Virginia Dominguez. 1986-Louisiana State University Press.

10...      AFRICANS IN COLONIAL LOUISIANA: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRO-
             CREOLE CULTURE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
             by Gwendolyn Midlo
             Hall. 1992-Louisiana State University Press.

11...      THE FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR IN NEW ORLEANS: AN INTRODUCTION
             by Mary Gehman. 1994-Margaret Media, Inc.

12...      THE NEW ORLEANS 7TH WARD NOSTALGIA DICTIONARY: 1938-
             1965 by Darrlyn A. Smith. 1996-Jada, Inc.-P.O. Box 18618-Seattle
             98118-0618.

13...      CREOLES OF COLOR IN THE BAYOU COUNTRY by Carl Brasseaux,
             Keith Fontenot, and Claude Oubre. 1994-University Press of Mississippi.

14...      CREOLES OF COLOR OF THE GULF SOUTH. Edited by James Dormon.
             1996-The University Press of Tennessee.

15...      VALUE RETENTION AMONG YOUNG CREOLES by Sister Frances Jerome
             Woods, C.D.P. 1989-The Edwin Mellen Press.

16...      THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE: CANE RIVER'S CREOLES OF COLOR
             Gary B. Mills. Louisiana State University Press.
             
17...     WE KNOW WHO WE ARE: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC OVERVIEW OF THE
             CREOLE TRADITIONS AND COMMUNITY OF ISLE BREVELLE AND
             CANE RIVER, LOUISIANA
             Hiram Gregory and Joseph Moran. National Park Service-Denver, Colorado-1996.

Additional Creole Books:

18...   History of New Orleans                                  
          John S. Kendall                                      
          3 vols.; Chicago, 1922

19...    Black New Orleans
          John Blassingame
          Chicago, 1973
 
20...    Slavery in the Cities:
          The South
          Richard C. Wade

21...    Slave Without Masters:
          The Free Negro in the Antebellum South
          Ira Berlin
          New York, 1974

22...   The Free Black in Urban America
          Leonard Curry
          Chicago, 1981

23...    Race Relations in Urban South
          Howard N. Rabinowitz
          New Yord, 1978

24...   New Men, New Cities, New South:
         Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile,
         1860-1910
         Don H. Doyle
         Chapel Hill, 1990

25...   American Counterpoint: Slavery and
         Racism in the North-South Dialogue
         C. Vann Woodward
         Boston, 1971

26...  Democracy in America
         Knopf Edition
         2 vols.; New York, 1945

27...  Journey to America
         Tocqueville's Notebooks
         New York, 1938

28...  Tocqueville and Beaumont in America
         George W. Pierson
         New York, 1938

29... Marie; or, Slavery in the United States
        Gustave de Beaumont
        Stanford, 1958

30... The Negro in France
        Shelby T. McCoy
        Lexington, Ky.,1961

31... Negro in the French West Indies
        Shelby T. McCoy
        Lexington, Ky., 1966

32... Old Regime and the French Revolution
        Alexis de Tocqueville
        New York, 1955
  33... The Old Regime
        Alfred Cobban
        Cambridge, Eng., 1957

  34... The Mythe of the Savage and the
        Beginning of French Colonization
        In the Americas
        Olive Patricia Dickason
        Edmonton, Canada, 1984

  35... Friend and Foe: Aspects of
        French-Amerindian Cultural Contact in
        The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
        Cornelius J. Jaenen
        New York, 1967

6... Beginning of New France
        Marcel Trudel
        Toronto, 1973

37... "Slave Politics in French Louisiana"
        Louisiana History
        Mathe Allain
        XXI (1980), 127-37

38... Red, White, and Black:
        The Peoples of Early America
        Gary B. Nash
        Englewood Cliffs, 1974

39... Africa and the Caribbean
        Harry Hoetink
        Baltimore, 1979

40... An Anthropological Approach to the
        Afro-American Past: A Caribbean
        Perspective
        Sidney W. Mintz & Richard Price
        Philadelphia, 1976

41... The Creation of a Slave Society:
        Louisiana Plantations in the Eighteenth
        Century
        James T. McGowan
        University of Rochester, 1976

42... Louisiana Troops
        Winston De Ville
        New Orleans, 1965

43... First Families of Louisiana
        Glenn R. Conrad
        2 vols.; Baton Rouge, 1972

44... Church and State in French
        Colonial Louisiana
        Charles E. O'Neill
        New Haven, 1966, 246-55

45... French Indian Relations on
        the Southern Frontier
        Patricia D. Woods
        Ann Arbor, 1980

46... The French and the Choctaw Indians
        Charles Wayne Goss
        Texas Tech University, 1977

47...   MARGINALITY AND IDENTITY: A COLORED CREOLE FAMILY
          
THROUGH TEN GENERATIONS by Sister Frances Jerome Woods, C.D.P.1972-Louisiana State University Press.