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Not too long ago, Creole was an afterthought in Louisiana consciousness. It fell out of popular memory and recognition by World War I, as a large number of Louisiana Creoles abandoned their historic identity and culture for racialized Anglo-American identities (white and negro/colored/black) … Since around 2010, Creole is back in popular use and academic discourse, and not in the racialized way that many today often use the identity.

The Lafayette-based KATC news station opened a can of worms when it presented on Facebook a proposal and research of Dr. Rick Swanson, a professor at UL Lafayette. Swanson questioned the representativeness of the flag of Acadiana, adopted by the Louisiana Legislature in 1974.

Genealogy, family history, history, ancestry, and roots, are all terms that more or less act as synonyms in English … at least inRead More