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New Populations Project Records, 2002-2012

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Identifier
NFAI.O.00000126
Date
2002 - 2012 (Inclusive dates)
Creator and/or Contributor
Louisiana Folklife Program (creator), Maida Owens (actor)
Scope and Content Note

The New Populations project identifies immigrant communities throughout the state in an effort to document how they maintain their traditional culture. Within each community, researchers located major tradition-bearers, artists, artifacts, and organizations. Records contain research materials, field reports, essay drafts, print-outs of final essays from the Louisiana Folklife Program website, photograph indexes, digital photographs, release forms, and interview transcripts in both analog and digital formats (unless otherwise noted). Interviews (recorded 2002-2009) are available on cassette tape and digitally unless otherwise indicated.  Some recordings are of music or community events.



Administrative/Biographical History Element

"The New Populations Initiative of the Louisiana Division of the Arts Folklife Program reaches out to our state's immigrant and refugee communities. The goal is to address an underserved sector within the cultural economy and provide an opportunity to engage these communities in the identification and documentation of their traditional culture and art forms.

The focus of New Populations research has been on communities with foreign-born members. However, documentation included the cultural practices of second- and sometimes third- generation community members, who are part of the cultural whole. Some of the individual artists who were documented for the project have lived in Louisiana for over forty years, while others have been here for only a few years. New Populations documentation revealed that many immigrant communities have created non-profit organizations to support their cultural activities. These organizations may conduct language schools, produce concerts, and hold community celebrations. Many immigrant communities center around religious affiliation with a church, temple, or mosque. Some of Louisiana's cultural communities are comprised of individuals who would be unlikely to know each other back in their countries of origin, but who have sought out others from home, or those who speak their language or practice the same religion."

1999-2012. “New Populations Project.” Louisiana Folklife Program. http://www.louisianafolklife.org/NewPopulations/.



General Note

Collection is available for review at LSU Libraries Special Collections, Hill Memorial Library, Baton Rouge, La.



Administrative/Biographical History Element

Materials may be found in the following series within the Louisana Folklife Program Project Files:

  • XXXV. New Populations

Extent
4.25 (linear feet)
67 (cassette tapes)
82.55 (GB)
Language
English (Languages)
Spanish (Languages)
Mandarin Chinese (Languages)
Garifuna (Languages)
Laotion (Languages)
Vietnamese (Languages)
Other Subject Headings
Baton Rouge (La.) (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Chinese—Louisiana. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Chinese New Year—Shreveport (La.) (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Cubans—Louisiana. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
East Indians--Louisiana. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
East Indians--Louisiana--Music. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Filipinos--New Orleans (La.) (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Folk dancing, Chinese--Louisiana (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Folk dancing, Japanese--Louisiana (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Forest Hill (La.) (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Garifuna (Caribbean people)--Louisiana (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Germans--Louisiana (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Guatemalans--Louisiana (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Henna (Dye) (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Hispanic Americans--Louisiana. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Hispanic Americans--Louisiana--Music. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Hondurans--Louisiana (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Social aspects--New Orleans (La.) (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Iberia Parish (La.) (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Japanese--Louisiana--Manners and customs. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Koreans--Louisiana. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Lanexang Village (La.) (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Laos—Emigration and immigration. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Laotians--Louisiana--Manners and customs. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Leesville (La.) (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint—Feasts—Louisiana (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Mexican Americans—Forest Hill (La.) (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
New Year—Iberia Parish (La.) (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Nicaraguans—Louisiana (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Oral history (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Pinatas (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Shreveport (La.) (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Southeastern Louisiana University (Hammond, La.) (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
St. Charles Parish (La.) (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
University of New Orleans (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Vernon Parish (La.) (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Vietnam—Emigration and immigration (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Vietnamese—Louisiana—Manners and customs. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Vietnamese New Year—New Orleans (La.) (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Geographic Coverage
Louisiana (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
Preferred Citation
Louisiana Folklife Program Project Files, Mss. 4730, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Related Entities:
Louisiana Folklife Program (creator)
Maida Owens (actor)

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