However, I argue that we no longer have the luxury to play these semantic games that uphold neocolonial ideals about language. I’m grateful for organizations like The Creole Language Institute of New ...

Her language echoes a growing institutional tendency: Swap the activist lexicon for neutral phrasing. “Cross-cultural engagement” replaces “racial equity.” “Belonging” stands in for ...

have teamed up with the nonprofit Chanbow for “Kouri Vini 101”, a new educational digital series exploring Louisiana’s endangered Creole language and culture. The show’s host, actor and ...

In France's overseas departments, Creole language and culture are seen as a bulwark against racism and standardisation. The concept of "Créoleness" was developed in the late 1980s, in the wake of ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (WAFB) - The unique language, music, and culture of Creole Louisiana is the focus of a museum in an area of Lafayette known as Freetown. Erica Fox is a musician and artist who ...

That includes people of French, Spanish and African descent. Today, Creole can refer to people and languages in Louisiana, Haiti and other Caribbean Islands, Africa, Brazil, the Indian Ocean and ...

This past summer, volunteering at a Louisiana Creole language immersion camp, Henry Johnson heard a lullaby that stirred a memory. In the memory, he was 3 years old, gathered with cousins and ...

Whether in the examination room or the operating theatre, when at one's most vulnerable, one should be able to be treated in the language one is most comfortable with, Allison Hanes writes.

creole and Indigenous languages differ significantly in grammar, pragmatics, and semantics from those. An insight into our linguistic confusion is seen in the fact that many Guyanese think that ...

Louisiana Creole is French-Lexified and spoken in, as one might guess, Louisiana. These languages, like AAE, originated during the enslavement of Africans in the 17th and 18th centuries.