PDF-(BOOS)-The Cajuns: Americanization of a People

The past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of Frenchspeaking 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 Louisianas AcadianaIn 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 and television crackled across Louisiana airwaves Cajun music makers responded with their own distinct versions In the 1960s empowerment and liberation movements turned the South upside down During the 1980s as things Cajun became an absorbing national fad Cajun became a kind of brand identity used for selling everything from swamp tours to boxed rice dinners At the dawn of the twentyfirst century the advent of a new information age launched CyberCajuns onto a worldwide web All these forces have pushed and pulled at the fabric of Cajun life but have not destroyed itA Cajun himself the author of this book has an intense personal fascination in his peopleBy linking seemingly local events in the Cajuns once isolated south Louisiana homeland to national and even global events Bernard demonstrates that by the middle of the twentieth century the Cajuns for the first time in their ethnic story were engulfed in the currents of mainstream American life and yet continued to make outstandingly distinct contributions. 19. th. 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