Carl A. Brasseaux
Carl A. Brasseaux, former director of the Center for Louisiana Studies and a Louisiana Writer of the Year, has spent a lifetime studying the peoples and cultures of the Louisiana coastal plain. He is author or coauthor of more than forty books including Asian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou; Ain’t There No More: Louisiana’s Disappearing Coastal Plain; Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803–1877; and Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country
The first serious historical examination of a distinctive multiracial society of Louisiana
Acadian to Cajun
Transformation of a People, 1803-1877
A study of unusual documentary resources that disclose the processes of cultural evolution that transformed the Acadians of early Louisiana into the Cajuns of today
Ain't There No More
Louisiana's Disappearing Coastal Plain
A harrowing account of coastal erosion, long neglect, and a man-made disaster in the Bayou State
Hard Scrabble to Hallelujah, Volume 1: Bayou Terrebonne
Legacies of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana
An incomparable historical record of a bayou’s many plantations, farms, and homesteads
Eyes of an Eagle
Jean-Pierre Cenac, Patriarch: An Illustrated History of Early Houma-Terrebonne
The incomparable history of a French family’s founding legacy in the seafood industry of south Louisiana
Asian-Cajun Fusion
Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou
A lushly illustrated and complete history of Louisiana’s shrimping industry