 | Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana Subjects: French -- Louisiana -- History -- 18th century; Indians of North America -- Louisiana -- History -- 18th century; Louisiana -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century; Race awareness -- Louisiana -- History -- 18th century; Material culture -- Louisiana; Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians offers a distinctive and original reading of racialization in early America. Focusing on cultural cross-dressing from a wide range of sources, Sophie White shows that material culture--especially dress--was central to discourses about race, as colonization was built on encounters mediated by appearance. Sophie White is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. |
