Jacques Henry
Biographic Data
| ID | 3661088 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacques Henry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacques |
| FAMILY NAME | Henry |
| SIGNATURE | HENRY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Études louisianaises: L'Insularité Puis l'Ouverture
Études louisianaises : l’insularité puis l’ouverture. Un article de la revue Bulletin d'histoire politique (La francophonie nord-américaine : bilan historiographique) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Return or relocate? An inductive analysis of decision-making in a disaster
This paper proposes an inductive analysis of the decision as to whether to return or to relocate by persons in the State of Louisiana, United States, who evacuated after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in August and September 2005, respectively. Drawing on interviews with evacuees in these events and extensive fieldwork in the impacted area, the paper seeks to identify the folk dimensions of the decision-making process, assess their arrangements, and…
Continuity, social change and Katrina
For some time, disaster researchers have looked for social change and mostly found continuity. This paper argues that shifting the focus from investigating social change to documenting continuity may enhance the understanding and planning of post-disaster situations especially in industrialised societies like the United States. Drawing from qualitative data from post-Katrina New Orleans, it proposes using the concept of continuity as an analytica…
Sing Us Back Home”: Music, Place, and the Production of Locality in Post-Katrina New Orleans
This paper explores the relationship between place and music in New Orleans. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it proposes that New Orleans musical practices are shaped by the combination of three pivotal factors: economic contingencies, a rich interactive network, and a deep-seated attachment to New Orleans. By focusing on musicians' agency, we examine how music is grounded in place, how d…
Figure du survivor: Gestion de la catastrophe et mémoireen Louisiane après les ouragans Katrina et Rita
La figure du « survivor » est omniprésente dans les récits des évacués des ouragans Katrina et Rita qui ont ravagé la Louisiane en 2005. Revendiquée par tous, elle est réappropriée par les Cadiens du Sud-Ouest et construite sur une série d'oppositions stigmatisantes entre urbains et ruraux, qui la distinguent de la figure du « vulnérable », assignée à la population noire pauvre de La Nouvelle-Orléans. Cet article explore les usages politiques et …
The Advantage of a Focus on Advantage: A Note on Teaching Minority Groups
made us aware that teaching undergraduate sociology courses dealing with minority groups presents a particular set of challenges. The difficulty we confronted in teaching a course dealing with racial and ethnic groups is two-pronged: on one hand, there is the well-documented problematic nature of the concepts themselves; on the other hand the multiplicity, overlap, and inadequacies of theoretical approaches both at the macrosocial and middle-rang…
Why Is Geophagy Treated Like Dirt
Geophagy is treated as adaptive behavior in most of the world and as deviant behavior in American culture. The dominant nutritional approach has strongly documented the useful contribution the consumption of clay brings to the diet of pregnant women and children. The same practice, found mostly among minority groups, is stigmatized in American culture. The different treatment of geophagy appears to rest on the different meaning of dirt, a formati…
Ethnic self-identification and symbolic stereotyping: The portrayal of Louisiana Cajuns
This article examines the process of ethnic self-identification. Utilizing data on Louisiana Cajuns, it proposes that contemporary Cajuns' self-image is rooted in stereotyped descriptions given by outsiders. Content analysis of popular depictions over two centuries shows the features and structure of the image to be quite stable despite considerable economic and social change. The meaning of the depiction, though, has evolved as those who conside…
Spectacles of Ethnicity: Festivals and the Commodification of Ethnic Culture Among Louisiana Cajuns
Drawing on the example of the Louisiana Cajuns, an ethnic group that has been enjoying a wave of popular revival in recent years, this study suggests that changes in the perception of an ethnic identity are related to socioeconomic transformation. We identify the festival as a key aspect of the Cajun revival since the 1960s. An examination of the history, activities, and contemporary spatiotemporal organization of festivals reveals similarities t…
Réalignement francophone: Les relations Louisiane-Québec-Acadie
Réalignement francophone : les relations Louisiane-Québec-Acadie. Un article de la revue Francophonies d'Amérique (Les relations entre le Québec et la francophonie nord-américaine) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Gender Egalitarianism in Coed Sport: A Case Study of American Soccer
This article uses an ethnographic and case-study approach to examine aspects of egalitarianism between men and women in an American coed soccer league. We describe the formal adjustments of the league, the informal arrangements made by participants, and the conceptualization of the game by both male and female players. Our findings indicate that even in a highly egalitarian form, coed soccer remains dominated by males both on the pitch and in con…
The Socioeconomic Position of the Louisiana Creoles: An Examination of Racial and Ethnic Stratification
This study suggests that the class-caste argument associated with the Wilson- Willie debate provides a fundamental line of division in theories of racial and ethnic stratification; it maintains that groups that combine minority statuses may be affected by both class and caste influences, a situation of "double jeopardy". and it describes French-speaking Louisiana blacks, or Creoles, as a group that combines minority statuses. Analysis of Census d…
The Silence of the Gators: Cajun Ethnicity and Intergenerational Transmission of Louisiana French
This study considers the relationship between Cajun ethnicity and the intergenerational transmission of the French language. It questions the commonsensical assumption of a positive relationship between ethnic identity and language transmission. It suggests that if an ethnicity is associated with socioeconomic disadvantages, then the greater the ethnic identification of parents, the more disadvantageous for them ethnic traits will be. Therefore, …
French in South Louisiana: Towards Language Loss
This paper presents a study of the ethnolinguistic vitality of the French community in Louisiana. After a brief overview of the history of French Louisiana and of a model of bilingual development based on the ethnolinguistic vitality framework, the present vitality of the French community in Louisiana is analysed in terms of its demographic, economic, political, and cultural capitals. The aforementioned provide the background of a study in which …
La politique canadienne d'aide à la région soudano-sahélienne
Spectacles of Ethnicity: Festivals and the Commodification of Ethnic Culture Among Louisiana Cajuns
Drawing on the example of the Louisiana Cajuns, an ethnic group that has been enjoying a wave of popular revival in recent years, this study suggests that changes in the perception of an ethnic identity are related to socioeconomic transformation. We identify the festival as a key aspect of the Cajun revival since the 1960s. An examination of the history, activities, and contemporary spatiotemporal organization of festivals reveals similarities t…
Gender Egalitarianism in Coed Sport: A Case Study of American Soccer
This article uses an ethnographic and case-study approach to examine aspects of egalitarianism between men and women in an American coed soccer league. We describe the formal adjustments of the league, the informal arrangements made by participants, and the conceptualization of the game by both male and female players. Our findings indicate that even in a highly egalitarian form, coed soccer remains dominated by males both on the pitch and in con…
French in South Louisiana: Towards Language Loss
This paper presents a study of the ethnolinguistic vitality of the French community in Louisiana. After a brief overview of the history of French Louisiana and of a model of bilingual development based on the ethnolinguistic vitality framework, the present vitality of the French community in Louisiana is analysed in terms of its demographic, economic, political, and cultural capitals. The aforementioned provide the background of a study in which …
Return or relocate? An inductive analysis of decision-making in a disaster
This paper proposes an inductive analysis of the decision as to whether to return or to relocate by persons in the State of Louisiana, United States, who evacuated after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in August and September 2005, respectively. Drawing on interviews with evacuees in these events and extensive fieldwork in the impacted area, the paper seeks to identify the folk dimensions of the decision-making process, assess their arrangements, and…
Ethnic self-identification and symbolic stereotyping: The portrayal of Louisiana Cajuns
This article examines the process of ethnic self-identification. Utilizing data on Louisiana Cajuns, it proposes that contemporary Cajuns' self-image is rooted in stereotyped descriptions given by outsiders. Content analysis of popular depictions over two centuries shows the features and structure of the image to be quite stable despite considerable economic and social change. The meaning of the depiction, though, has evolved as those who conside…
The Silence of the Gators: Cajun Ethnicity and Intergenerational Transmission of Louisiana French
This study considers the relationship between Cajun ethnicity and the intergenerational transmission of the French language. It questions the commonsensical assumption of a positive relationship between ethnic identity and language transmission. It suggests that if an ethnicity is associated with socioeconomic disadvantages, then the greater the ethnic identification of parents, the more disadvantageous for them ethnic traits will be. Therefore, …
Continuity, social change and Katrina
For some time, disaster researchers have looked for social change and mostly found continuity. This paper argues that shifting the focus from investigating social change to documenting continuity may enhance the understanding and planning of post-disaster situations especially in industrialised societies like the United States. Drawing from qualitative data from post-Katrina New Orleans, it proposes using the concept of continuity as an analytica…
Sing Us Back Home”: Music, Place, and the Production of Locality in Post-Katrina New Orleans
This paper explores the relationship between place and music in New Orleans. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it proposes that New Orleans musical practices are shaped by the combination of three pivotal factors: economic contingencies, a rich interactive network, and a deep-seated attachment to New Orleans. By focusing on musicians' agency, we examine how music is grounded in place, how d…
Figure du survivor: Gestion de la catastrophe et mémoireen Louisiane après les ouragans Katrina et Rita
La figure du « survivor » est omniprésente dans les récits des évacués des ouragans Katrina et Rita qui ont ravagé la Louisiane en 2005. Revendiquée par tous, elle est réappropriée par les Cadiens du Sud-Ouest et construite sur une série d'oppositions stigmatisantes entre urbains et ruraux, qui la distinguent de la figure du « vulnérable », assignée à la population noire pauvre de La Nouvelle-Orléans. Cet article explore les usages politiques et …
Why Is Geophagy Treated Like Dirt
Geophagy is treated as adaptive behavior in most of the world and as deviant behavior in American culture. The dominant nutritional approach has strongly documented the useful contribution the consumption of clay brings to the diet of pregnant women and children. The same practice, found mostly among minority groups, is stigmatized in American culture. The different treatment of geophagy appears to rest on the different meaning of dirt, a formati…
Études louisianaises: L'Insularité Puis l'Ouverture
Études louisianaises : l’insularité puis l’ouverture. Un article de la revue Bulletin d'histoire politique (La francophonie nord-américaine : bilan historiographique) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The Advantage of a Focus on Advantage: A Note on Teaching Minority Groups
made us aware that teaching undergraduate sociology courses dealing with minority groups presents a particular set of challenges. The difficulty we confronted in teaching a course dealing with racial and ethnic groups is two-pronged: on one hand, there is the well-documented problematic nature of the concepts themselves; on the other hand the multiplicity, overlap, and inadequacies of theoretical approaches both at the macrosocial and middle-rang…
Réalignement francophone: Les relations Louisiane-Québec-Acadie
Réalignement francophone : les relations Louisiane-Québec-Acadie. Un article de la revue Francophonies d'Amérique (Les relations entre le Québec et la francophonie nord-américaine) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The Socioeconomic Position of the Louisiana Creoles: An Examination of Racial and Ethnic Stratification
This study suggests that the class-caste argument associated with the Wilson- Willie debate provides a fundamental line of division in theories of racial and ethnic stratification; it maintains that groups that combine minority statuses may be affected by both class and caste influences, a situation of "double jeopardy". and it describes French-speaking Louisiana blacks, or Creoles, as a group that combines minority statuses. Analysis of Census d…
La politique canadienne d'aide à la région soudano-sahélienne
French in South Louisiana: Towards Language Loss
This paper presents a study of the ethnolinguistic vitality of the French community in Louisiana. After a brief overview of the history of French Louisiana and of a model of bilingual development based on the ethnolinguistic vitality framework, the present vitality of the French community in Louisiana is analysed in terms of its demographic, economic, political, and cultural capitals. The aforementioned provide the background of a study in which …
The Socioeconomic Position of the Louisiana Creoles: An Examination of Racial and Ethnic Stratification
This study suggests that the class-caste argument associated with the Wilson- Willie debate provides a fundamental line of division in theories of racial and ethnic stratification; it maintains that groups that combine minority statuses may be affected by both class and caste influences, a situation of "double jeopardy". and it describes French-speaking Louisiana blacks, or Creoles, as a group that combines minority statuses. Analysis of Census d…
The Silence of the Gators: Cajun Ethnicity and Intergenerational Transmission of Louisiana French
This study considers the relationship between Cajun ethnicity and the intergenerational transmission of the French language. It questions the commonsensical assumption of a positive relationship between ethnic identity and language transmission. It suggests that if an ethnicity is associated with socioeconomic disadvantages, then the greater the ethnic identification of parents, the more disadvantageous for them ethnic traits will be. Therefore, …
Réalignement francophone: Les relations Louisiane-Québec-Acadie
Réalignement francophone : les relations Louisiane-Québec-Acadie. Un article de la revue Francophonies d'Amérique (Les relations entre le Québec et la francophonie nord-américaine) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Gender Egalitarianism in Coed Sport: A Case Study of American Soccer
This article uses an ethnographic and case-study approach to examine aspects of egalitarianism between men and women in an American coed soccer league. We describe the formal adjustments of the league, the informal arrangements made by participants, and the conceptualization of the game by both male and female players. Our findings indicate that even in a highly egalitarian form, coed soccer remains dominated by males both on the pitch and in con…
Spectacles of Ethnicity: Festivals and the Commodification of Ethnic Culture Among Louisiana Cajuns
Drawing on the example of the Louisiana Cajuns, an ethnic group that has been enjoying a wave of popular revival in recent years, this study suggests that changes in the perception of an ethnic identity are related to socioeconomic transformation. We identify the festival as a key aspect of the Cajun revival since the 1960s. An examination of the history, activities, and contemporary spatiotemporal organization of festivals reveals similarities t…
Ethnic self-identification and symbolic stereotyping: The portrayal of Louisiana Cajuns
This article examines the process of ethnic self-identification. Utilizing data on Louisiana Cajuns, it proposes that contemporary Cajuns' self-image is rooted in stereotyped descriptions given by outsiders. Content analysis of popular depictions over two centuries shows the features and structure of the image to be quite stable despite considerable economic and social change. The meaning of the depiction, though, has evolved as those who conside…
Why Is Geophagy Treated Like Dirt
Geophagy is treated as adaptive behavior in most of the world and as deviant behavior in American culture. The dominant nutritional approach has strongly documented the useful contribution the consumption of clay brings to the diet of pregnant women and children. The same practice, found mostly among minority groups, is stigmatized in American culture. The different treatment of geophagy appears to rest on the different meaning of dirt, a formati…
The Advantage of a Focus on Advantage: A Note on Teaching Minority Groups
made us aware that teaching undergraduate sociology courses dealing with minority groups presents a particular set of challenges. The difficulty we confronted in teaching a course dealing with racial and ethnic groups is two-pronged: on one hand, there is the well-documented problematic nature of the concepts themselves; on the other hand the multiplicity, overlap, and inadequacies of theoretical approaches both at the macrosocial and middle-rang…
Sing Us Back Home”: Music, Place, and the Production of Locality in Post-Katrina New Orleans
This paper explores the relationship between place and music in New Orleans. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it proposes that New Orleans musical practices are shaped by the combination of three pivotal factors: economic contingencies, a rich interactive network, and a deep-seated attachment to New Orleans. By focusing on musicians' agency, we examine how music is grounded in place, how d…
Figure du survivor: Gestion de la catastrophe et mémoireen Louisiane après les ouragans Katrina et Rita
La figure du « survivor » est omniprésente dans les récits des évacués des ouragans Katrina et Rita qui ont ravagé la Louisiane en 2005. Revendiquée par tous, elle est réappropriée par les Cadiens du Sud-Ouest et construite sur une série d'oppositions stigmatisantes entre urbains et ruraux, qui la distinguent de la figure du « vulnérable », assignée à la population noire pauvre de La Nouvelle-Orléans. Cet article explore les usages politiques et …
Continuity, social change and Katrina
For some time, disaster researchers have looked for social change and mostly found continuity. This paper argues that shifting the focus from investigating social change to documenting continuity may enhance the understanding and planning of post-disaster situations especially in industrialised societies like the United States. Drawing from qualitative data from post-Katrina New Orleans, it proposes using the concept of continuity as an analytica…
Return or relocate? An inductive analysis of decision-making in a disaster
This paper proposes an inductive analysis of the decision as to whether to return or to relocate by persons in the State of Louisiana, United States, who evacuated after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in August and September 2005, respectively. Drawing on interviews with evacuees in these events and extensive fieldwork in the impacted area, the paper seeks to identify the folk dimensions of the decision-making process, assess their arrangements, and…
Études louisianaises: L'Insularité Puis l'Ouverture
Études louisianaises : l’insularité puis l’ouverture. Un article de la revue Bulletin d'histoire politique (La francophonie nord-américaine : bilan historiographique) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
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