The Negros Congos of Panama

Afro-Hispanic Creole Language and Culture

Bibliographic Data

ID19005657
AuthorsJohn M Lipski (0000-0003-1110-2697, University of Houston, corresponding author)
Year1986
Volume16
Issue4
Pages409-428
Publication date1986-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Black Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/002193478601600405
OpenAlexW2088082044
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited10

African cultural and linguistic influence in Latin America is an undeniable fact, but, particularly in Spanish America, African populations descended from slaves and laborers of past centuries have been assimilated into the national populations. The resulting transculturation, although not removing all distinctive African characteristics, has partially obscured the non-Hispanic cultural bases among Afro-American groups in Spanish-speaking nations, and consequently it is increasingly difficult to reconstruct the linguistic and social situation of black communities in colonial Latin America. In particular, the formation of creole dialects did not occur as extensively in Spanish America as among English-, French-, Dutch-, and Portuguese-speaking populations, for reasons that are only partially understood (Alleyne, 1971: 182; Mintz, 1971: 492; Otheguy, 1975; Reinecke, 1938; Alsopp, 1977). As evidence of creole or bozal Spanish, spoken by slaves and servants recently arrived from Africa, existed as early as the sixteenth century, not only in Spain but also in Spanish

Archaeology · Colonialism · Creole language · Ethnology · Geography · Latin Americans · Linguistics · Political science · Portuguese · Sociology · Transculturation · Anthropology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History

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