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"Honduran Memories": Identity, Race, Place And Memory In New Orleans, Louisiana, Samantha Euraque
"Honduran Memories": Identity, Race, Place And Memory In New Orleans, Louisiana, Samantha Euraque
LSU Master's Theses
During the decade preceding the height of the civil rights movement, a small population of Hondurans established residence in the New Orleans area. This Honduran migration was largely due to the trade relationship that existed between Honduras and New Orleans. Honduras was also experiencing political unrest and economic instability due to military coups, fruit company strikes and floods during the late 1950s. In response, the advent of the 1960s brought with it the first wave of Hondurans. According to the 2000 Census there were 64,340 people of Hispanic origin in the four parishes included in the New Orleans metropolitan area, …
Musical Play Across Ethnic Boundaries In Western Jamaica, Ronald Eric Dickerson
Musical Play Across Ethnic Boundaries In Western Jamaica, Ronald Eric Dickerson
LSU Master's Theses
An ethnography of music, ritual, and festival in western Jamaica, this thesis reports on fieldwork performed in St. Elizabeth and St. James Parishes between June 2002 and January 2003. Featured field sites include rural dancehall events, Kumina performances, Accompong Town's Maroon Heritage Festival, and a Rastafarian music and nutrition festival called "The Supper of Rastafari." Building an account of these and other sites of cultural performance, this study focuses on social connections between groups of participants, traced through poetic, historical, and personal relationships among performers, especially across boundaries of ethnic, stylistic, or religious difference within Jamaica's national cultural identity.