Spirit of a Culture: Cane River Creoles

Louisiana Public Broadcasting March 13, 2021
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In a story that pre-dates America, the multi-ethnic French Creoles of Cane River in Northwest Louisiana identify themselves as somewhere between white or black racial lines. This program recounts the Cane River Creole struggle: from colonial French Louisiana to today's Creole led multicultural renaissance-against the notion of race as a deciding feature of a population. The program is a collaboration between Emmy award-winning filmmaker Bill Rodman and Executive Producer Flo R. Ulmer.