The Creole Capital
The Creole Capital
New Orleans was thus, in the early American era, an extremely cosmopolitan city where racial and ethnic groups met, where new immigrants from Europe cohabited with long-established Louisiana families and seasoned colonials from Saint-Domingue. Catholics coexisted with Protestants; speakers of French, German, and Spanish lived among Anglophones coming from Europe and Anglo-Saxon North America. Such a variegated juxtaposition of racial and ethnic groups could only be productive of a new society. Showing how diversity made for a specific cultural wealth, but also how reconfigurations occurred among the main groups composing the New Orleans society, and how, through progressively increased interaction and a blurring of cultural segregation, the groups influenced and acculturated each other and produced a unique common cultural blend, chapter 6 reassesses New Orleans's distinctiveness in North America.
Keywords: Catholics, Protestants, French speakers, Anglophones, Diversity, Cultural wealth, Reconfigurations, Interaction, Segregation, New Orleans
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