Good God but You Smart!

Taking Cajuns as a case study,  Good God but You Smart! explores the subtle ways language bias is used in classrooms, within families, and in pop culture references to enforce systemic economic inequality. It is the first book in composition studies to examine comprehensively, and from an insider’s perspective, the cultural and linguistic assimilation of Cajuns in Louisiana.   The study investigates the complicated motivations and cultural concessions of upwardly mobile Cajuns who “cho