Louisiana is a rich state of mixed-race people. Wendy A. Gaudin, a California native and descendant of Louisiana Creoles, approaches the complex tapestry of what it means to be Afro-Creole in ...

After all, Cajun and Creole have become cultural identifiers as well as ethnic identifiers in Acadiana. "Ethnicity can be a fluid and ambiguous thing," Caffery said.

Wendy A. Gaudin, a professor at Xavier University in New Orleans, investigates her family's Creole and mixed race history while also examining Creole history in Louisiana and in postwar California.

“Traditionally, a Creole is a descendant of the original (mostly) French (and Spanish) inhabitants and initial settlers. It ...

Zydeco is the traditional music of Louisiana Creoles of colour – the historical ethnic group describing mixed-race people born to European settlers and Africans in the colonial US.

Talk about introducing Creole in schools has animated the debate in this country for years. Recently, it has come back with force and is advocated by some as the panacea to the high rate of ...

Four linguistic scholars discussed race, ethnicity, language and resistance at a roundtable discussion sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and the Cogut Institute ...

The pope’s background was unearthed Thursday by a New Orleans genealogist, Jari C. Honora, and confirmed to The New York Times by the pope’s older brother, John Prevost, 71, who lives in the ...