{"id":44598,"date":"2015-12-14T03:40:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T03:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44598"},"modified":"2016-01-27T22:39:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T22:39:40","slug":"in-other-words-creole-can-be-either-black-or-white-and-not-necessarily-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44598","title":{"rendered":"In other words, Creole can be either black or white, and not necessarily black and white."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anatole_Broyard\" target=\"_blank\">Broyard<\/a> was, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Louis_Gates,_Jr.\" target=\"_blank\">Henry Louis Gates\u2019s<\/a> 1996 <em>New Yorker<\/em> article \u201cThe\u00a0Passing of Anatole Broyard,\u201d some kind of a trickster. The word <em>Creole<\/em> requires\u00a0rigorous semantic handling. Just as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans<\/a> became the home of French,\u00a0Arcadian, and Haitian refugees, the very word <em>Creole<\/em> carries an underlying\u00a0sense of evasion, a connotation of which Broyard clearly took advantage. Broyard\u2019s\u00a0<em>Creole<\/em> was an evasion in the same way that \u201che\u2019d mostly <em>evaded<\/em> [my\u00a0italics] the question, saying something vague about \u2018island influences\u2019\u201d\u00a0when <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blissbroyard\" target=\"_blank\">Bliss\u2019s<\/a> mother had once asked her husband about his racial background. The\u00a0word <em>Creole<\/em> could have indeed meant \u201cmixed race\u201d for a worldly person like\u00a0<em>Cheven<\/em>, but the mixed-race connotation in <em>Creole<\/em> carries an added value: the\u00a0mixing of races is not necessarily in a given person, but it can also occur in a\u00a0given environment between blacks and whites living in the same space and\u00a0sharing a common history and culture. In other words, <em>Creole<\/em> can be either\u00a0black or white, and not necessarily black and white.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umt.edu\/academics\/faculty\/benedicte-boisseron.php\" target=\"_blank\">B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte Boisseron<\/a>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44565\" target=\"_blank\">Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora<\/a><\/em>, (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014), 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broyard was, according to Henry Louis Gates\u2019s 1996 New Yorker article \u201cThe\u00a0Passing of Anatole Broyard,\u201d some kind of a trickster. The word Creole requires\u00a0rigorous semantic handling. Just as New Orleans became the home of French,\u00a0Arcadian, and Haitian refugees, the very word Creole carries an underlying\u00a0sense of evasion, a connotation of which Broyard clearly took advantage. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5427,22239,1871,948,2935],"class_list":["post-44598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-anatole-broyard","tag-benedicte-boisseron","tag-bliss-broyard","tag-henry-louis-gates","tag-henry-louis-gates-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44599,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44598\/revisions\/44599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}