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Making Race in the Courtroom: The Legal Construction of Three Races in Early New Orleans
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Making Race in the Courtroom: The Legal Construction of Three Races in Early New Orleans

No American city’s history better illustrates both the possibilities for alternative racial models and the role of the law in shaping racial identity than New Orleans, Louisiana, which prior to the Civil War was home to America’s most privileged community of people of African descent. In the eyes of the law, New Orleans’s free people of color did not belong to the same race as enslaved Africans and African-Americans. While slaves were “negroes,” free people of color were gens de couleur libre, creoles of color, or simply creoles.
 
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Tags: color, people, racial, Orleans, creoles
Creoles, Their Substrates, and Language Typology
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Creoles, their Substrates, and Language TypologyCreoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology

Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general.
 
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Tags: their, typologists, linguists, creolists, issue, Creoles, Typology, Language, Substrates
Politeness And Face in Caribbean Creoles
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Politeness And Face in Caribbean CreolesPoliteness and Face in Caribbean Creoles is the first collection to focus on socio-pragmatic issues in the Caribbean context, including the socio-cultural rules and principles underlying strategic language use. While the Caribbean has long been recognized as a rich and interesting site where cultural continuities meet with new "creolized" or innovative practices, questions of politeness practices, constructions of personhood, or the notion of face have so far been neglected in linguistic research on Caribbean Creoles.
 
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Tags: Caribbean, Creoles, practices, Politeness, innovative