About the Author

Sybil Kein is a Creole scholar, writer, and singer. She has published five poetry collections and several CDs of Creole music, and her recorded poetry is housed in the National Archives. She is a distinguished professor of English emerita of the University of Michigan

Reviews

Conservative or liberal, black, white, or griffe, all Louisianians should find this book a fascinating read--an insight into the complicated political and social battles that shaped our state's history and still affect our society today.-- "New Orleans Magazine"

Multicultural before there was a name, racially constructed before there was a theory, international before there was a discourse, Louisiana's Creoles have much to teach us about the specific history and production of a remarkable people as well as about the larger, overarching, fluid, and complicated issues of culture, nation, and race. This extraordinary interdisciplinary collection, wide-ranging yet judiciously focused, is a powerful and necessary addition to twenty-first century studies of race and culture.--Thadious M. Davis, author of Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature