Editing Cajuns (section)

===Americanization of Acadiana (1950–1970)===
[[File:Census Bureau 2000, Cajuns in the United States.png|thumb|center|upright=2|Map depicting Cajuns in the United States, according to the [[2000 United States census|2000 census]].]]

When the United States of America began assimilating and Americanizing the parishes of Acadiana between the 1950s and 1970s, they imposed segregation and reorganized the inhabitants of the Cajun Country to identify racially as either "white" Cajuns or "black" Creoles.<ref name="nicholeestandford"/> As the younger generations were made to abandon speaking French and French customs, the White or Indian Cajuns assimilated into the [[Anglo-America]]n host culture, and the Black Cajuns assimilated into the [[African American]] culture.<ref name="georgeepozzetta">{{cite book|title=Immigrants on the Land: Agriculture, Rural Life, and Small Towns|author=George E. Pozzetta|year=1991|publisher=Taylor & Francis|location=United States of America|pages=408}}</ref>

Cajuns looked to the [[civil rights movement]] and other Black liberation and empowerment movements as a guide to fostering Louisiana's French cultural renaissance. A Cajun student protester in 1968 declared "We're slaves to a system. Throw away the shackles... and be free with your brother."<ref name="shanekbernard" />