Question

[chipmunk-planet.livejournal.com]

I just finished Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country, and I was wondering if anyone is familiar with the authors. Are they POC??

Carl A. Brasseaux identifies as Cajun (so obviously he doesn't count here), but I can't find anything about Claude F. Oubre and Keith P. Fontenot. Can't really tell by their names ...

Thanks for any assistance.

(btw, if anyone is interested in Creole literature there is a ton listed on the French Creoles site.

Comments

[eefster.livejournal.com]

Claude Oubre seems to have been (or may still be?) member of faculty at LSU Eunice (LSUE) (http://www.lsue.edu/acadgate/festivals99/more.htm). If he's still teaching there, I'd probably recommend starting there for more information about him; he might have a staff page up.

Keith P. Fontenot is an archivist at the St Landry Parish (http://www.zydecoonline.com/dev/index.php?name=News&file=print&sid=133). Again, I'd probably start looking there for more information.

Unfortunately for trying to answer your question, neither site I found says anything about how the men identify themselves, and I'm not familiar with either man's biography. In fact, I just realised you may have already found this information. In that case, my apologies for being redundant!

[chipmunk-planet.livejournal.com]

No, I hadn't found the info yet, thanks so much! :D

[chipmunk-planet.livejournal.com]

That second link is really interesting :D

[eefster.livejournal.com]

I know; I was fascinated. I had (disappointingly, but unsurprisingly) never heard of some of those things before, especially the slave mortgages (and especially especially mortgaging oneself).

[chipmunk-planet.livejournal.com]

There's a story in that book where a woman mortgaged her own son (to a friend but still!)