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Sophie White is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations
Introduction
I. FRENCHIFICATION IN THE ILLINOIS COUNTRY
Chapter 1. "Their Manner of Living"
Chapter 2. "Nothing of the
Sauvage"
Chapter 3. "One People and One God"
II. FRENCHIFIED INDIANS AND WILD FRENCHMEN IN NEW ORLEANS
Chapter 4. "The First Creole from This Colony That We Have Received": Sister Ste. Marthe and the Limits of Frenchification
Chapter 5: "To Ensure That He Not Give Himself Over to the
Sauvages": Cleanliness, Grease, and Skin Color
Chapter 6. "We Are All
Sauvages": Frenchmen into Indians?
Epilogue: "True French"
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Sophie White is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Zusammenfassung
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.
