In this tapestry of intersecting stories, including those of her own family, Rashauna Johnson charts the global transformation of a rural region in Louisiana from European colonialism to Jim Crow. From her ancestor Virgil to her cousin Veronica and her hand-sewn Mardi Gras memorial suit more than a century later, this history is one of triumphs and trauma, illustrating the ways people of African descent have created sites of endurance, belonging, and resistance. Johnson uses her grandmother's birthplace in East Feliciana as a prism to illuminate foundational, if fraught, aspects of US history including colonialism, slavery, war, citizenship, and unfinished freedom. The result is a portrait of the world in a family, a family in a region, and a region in the world that insists on the bristling and complicated relationships of people to place and creates a new understanding of what it means to be American.
| ISBN: | 9781009668323 |
| Publication date: | 5th March 2026 |
| Author: | Rashauna Johnson |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 368 pages |
| Genres: |
Slavery and abolition of slavery Social discrimination and social justice Social groups, communities and identities History of other geographical groupings and regions |
In this tapestry of intersecting stories, including those of her own family, Rashauna Johnson charts the global transformation of a rural region in Louisiana from European colonialism to Jim Crow. From her ancestor Virgil to her cousin Veronica and her hand-sewn Mardi Gras memorial suit more than a century later, this history is one of triumphs and trauma, illustrating the ways people of African descent have created sites of endurance, belonging, and resistance. Johnson uses her grandmother's birthplace in East Feliciana as a prism to illuminate foundational, if fraught, aspects of US history including colonialism, slavery, war, citizenship, and unfinished freedom. The result is a portrait of the world in a family, a family in a region, and a region in the world that insists on the bristling and complicated relationships of people to place and creates a new understanding of what it means to be American.
Sweet Home Feliciana features in the following genres: Slavery and abolition of slavery, Social discrimination and social justice, Social groups, communities and identities, History of other geographical groupings and regions
Sweet Home Feliciana is available in Hardback
Sweet Home Feliciana was written by Rashauna Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press
Sweet Home Feliciana has 368 pages
£24.30