Creole
A Contested, Polysemous Term
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2147448 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael R Cope (0000-0001-7753-2812, Brigham Young University, corresponding author), Mark J Schafer (LSU AgCenter, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA), Mark Schafer (0000-0001-6296-8832, Louisiana State University) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 15 |
| Pages | 2653-2671 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870.2016.1267375 |
| OpenAlex | W2580020270 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 35 |
In this paper, we critically examine the polysemous term, creole, used at different times and various geographical areas to describe diverse identities, languages, peoples, ethnicities, racial heritages, and cultural artefacts. Our objective is twofold: (1) to describe the historically contested nature of the term and its connection to broader trends in defining race in the United States and (2) to suggest that a deeper understanding of racially situated terms such as creole can help to highlight the contextualized character of racial/ethnic divisions, trends, and labels. Our analysis shows that in many ways the Creole people of the United States Gulf Coast Region truly represent the "melting pot" mantra in espoused American ideology and exemplify a direct challenge to bygone racial ideologues which espoused the idea that mixing produces hybridized, impudent, weak, and sickly offspring
Creole language · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Ideology · Linguistics · Mantra · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Situated · Sociology · Term (time · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |