The past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained strikingly distinct. The Cajuns: Americanization of a People explores these six decades and analyzes the forces that had an impact on Louisiana's Acadiana. In the 1940s; when America entered World War II; so too did the isolated Cajuns. Cajun soldiers fought alongside troops from Brooklyn and Berkeley and absorbed aspects of new cultures. In the 1950s as rock 'n' roll and television crackled across Louisiana airwaves; Cajun music makers responded with their own distinct versions. In the 1960s; empowerment and liberation movements turned the South upside down. During the 1980s; as things Cajun became an absorbing national fad; "Cajun" became a kind of brand identity used for selling everything from swamp tours to boxed rice dinners. At the dawn of the twenty-first century; the advent of a new information age launched "Cyber-Cajuns" onto a worldwide web. All these forces have pushed and pulled at the fabric of Cajun life but have not destroyed it.A Cajun himself; the author of this book has an intense personal fascination in his people.By linking seemingly local events in the Cajuns' once isolated south Louisiana homeland to national and even global events; Bernard demonstrates that by the middle of the twentieth century the Cajuns for the first time in their ethnic story were engulfed in the currents of mainstream American life and yet continued to make outstandingly distinct contributions.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. An excellent account of the seven British Flying Training Schools here ...By Aircraft NutAn excellent account of the seven British Flying Training Schools here in the US. The RAF cadets felt better trained than their counterparts who received training else where. Interesting to find that it was the RAF who dropped the BT-13 from the training syllabus and the USAAF / USN soon followed suit.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Training British Pilots in TexasBy Albert A. NofiA summary of the review on StrategyPage.Com'Aviation historian Killebrew gives us a look at an interesting chapter in the Anglo-American relationship during World War II; the RAF’s flight training program in the United States. The RAF had a small flight training program in the U.S. during World War I; and was already training pilots in Canada when; in 1941; as part of Lend Lease; the U.S. offered to allow the opening of flight schools. Staffed mostly by American civilian flight training personnel working under RAF supervision; using American aircraft but British training proceedures; some thousands of young men trained in the United States. Killebrew tells this story well; touching not only upon the political; technical; and organizational aspects of the program; and also about how the trainees interacted with and generally became friendly with their American hosts; civilian as well as milititary. He also offers brief profiles of the wartime careers and postwar lives of some of the trainees. A good read for anyone interested in the history of the RAF; this book will be of particular value to students of aviation training programs of Lend Lease.'For the full review; see StrategyPage.Com
