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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Creoles"”.
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Nonverbal communication among Pointe Coupee Creoles
… patterns of generations of Pointe Coupee Creoles undergoing language shift from Creole French in the older generation to English in the younger. The data demonstrate that nonverbal patterns are decoupled from verbal language to some extent in the degree to which they are maintained down …
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On the Syllable Structure of English Pidgins and Creoles.
… Atlantic and Pacific English-lexicon pidgins and creoles, both in their earlier stages and in the modem varieties. The theoretical framework and the methodology are presented in chapter 2. The next three chapters examine the adjustments that occur in the English pidgins and creoles in two syllabic …
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Henry Louis Rey, Spiritualism, and Creoles of Color in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
… material realms negotiated by New Orleans Black Creoles as they weathered declining political and economic fortunes.
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Creoles, Indian Immigrants and the Restructuring of Society and Economy in Mauritius, 1767-1885
During the nineteenth century Mauritian society and economy experienced a series of profound changes. The inclusion of the former French colony into the British Empire in 1814 led to a major restructuring of the colony's economy. The abolition in 1825 of the preferential tariff on West Indian sugar …
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I Am What I Say I Am: Racial and Cultural Identity among Creoles of Color in New Orleans
… in the culture and racial self-identification of Creoles of Color of New Orleans. This study argues that the key to understanding Creole culture is the role that isolationism has played in its history. While White ethnics pursued a path of assimilation, Creoles of Color pursued a path of …
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New Orleans' Plasterers' Union Local 93: Afro-Creole Identity, Family and Organized Labor, 1898-1954
… by Irish Americans and New Orleans Afro-Creoles and represents a continuation of an Afro-Creole protest tradition that had existed since the eighteenth century in Louisiana. The cooperation between these Irish and Afro-Creole plasterers represented a social sodality of working class …
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Creole identity: a post-colonial research in contemporary Mauritius
… of a persecuted creole sub-group, the ‘ti-creoles’ who have claimed ‘malaise creole’ in the aftermath of a creolisation process. This group has been enclaved into degraded slums in the outer urban suburbs. This research also considers the creoles’ problematic contribution to wider …
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Skin Color and Social Practice: The Problem of Race and Class Among New Orleans Creoles and Across the South, 1718-1862
… study is to uncover the story of the New Orleans Creoles of color—the mixed-race, francophone middle class of New Orleans and the surrounding area before the Civil War. It shows how the people who became the New Orleans Creoles of color worked endlessly, over three colonial and territorial regimes …
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The power struggle between Americans and Creoles in the first half of the nineteenth century and its influence on the architecture of New Orleans
… and in doing so, achieved power over the native Creoles, primarily in the area of social sophistication, the Americans with their more blunt approach to business and politics tended to wrest power from the Creoles by a superior, or at least more effective, business acumen. The landscape generated …
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"Something at Least Human": Transatlantic (Re)Presentations of Creole Women in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
… gender roles. Focusing on the representation of Creoles in Jamaica and Louisiana, this dissertation investigates both the constraints and categories used to define the Creole woman and conducts case studies on the representation of her as a monstrous, sexualized, being. It uses an analysis of …
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Rethinking decreolization: Language contact and change in Louisiana Creole
All languages change. Creoles are no exception. However, do creoles change in the same ways as other languages? Research on language change in creoles has hinged on the notion of decreolization: apparently a ‘special case’ of contact-induced change whereby the creole adverges to the lexifier …
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De la patria criolla a la nación Mexicana: Surgimiento y articulación del nacionalismo en la prensa Novohispana del siglo XVIII, en su contexto transatlántico
… IN ITS TRANSATLANTIC CONTEXT Spanish American creoles constructed an epistemological alternative to Europe. For such a project, 18th-century creoles relied on two forces that their predecessors did not enjoy: the cultural environment of the Enlightenment, which allowed them to question …
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Multi in so many ways : a narrative inquiry into a culturally and historically sustaining Creole Studies program
… in the Early Twentieth Century, 2000, p. 3). Creoles, both marginalized and vilified for having ideas dissimilar to both black and white Americans, are by definition historically multiracial/multicultural. Often forced to assimilate by context and circumstance, they still retain a significant …
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Diasporic identities, autochthonous rights: race, gender, and the cultural politics of Creole land rights in Nicaragua
This dissertation explores how afro-descendent Creoles from the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua engage the politics of femininity and masculinity, indigeneity and blackness, tradition and modernity, and autochthony and diaspora in their struggles for communal land rights. The historical part of the …
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One substrate, Two Lexifiers and the Lexifier Effect
… frequency of occurrence of substrate features in creoles.
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"This is OUR AMERICA, TOO": Marcus B. Christian & the History of Black Louisiana
… retrieved the largely forgotten history of Creoles of color. In fact, his own story was an extension of the black intellectual traditions of that Creole population. Even as his work revealed black Louisiana's unique culture, it also served as the foundation for Christian's own intellectual …
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Literary expressions of Creole identity in Alfred Mercier's L'Habitation Saint-Ybars and Johnelle
… identify as either French or American, Creoles occupied an uncertain space. This study demonstrates that Alfred Mercier’s works articulate a hybrid identity that is neither French nor American but rather a multicultural construct. The first chapter examines the nineteenth-century Creole …
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Creole Resistance in Louisiana from Colonization to Black Lives Matter: Activism’s Deep-Rooted Role in Creole Identity
… a hybrid identity formation. Strategically Creoles have utilized their complex racial formation to mount resistance to dominant ideologies through their identification with both Black and white identity. Often the historical role Creole identity played within social movements has been …
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Gender variation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic
In the history of pidgins and creoles, many documented contact languages are European-based ones because they arose as a direct result of European colonial expansion between the sixteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. However, contact languages are developing entirely outside …
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