Creole Explained

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After over 3 years of searching, I finally found my 4th great grandfather baptism from nearly 200 years ago!

In this video, I react to Dr. Shirley Thompson's 2017 "Mon Cher Dupré"

The articles illuminates the complicated "love" story between the Louisiana Creole FWOC Marie Boulard and her husband John Dupré.

After Boulard dies, Dupré tries to tarnish her name and scam her kids using her "love" letters that she had written to him.

In this episode, I discuss the GG and where they are located. I also discuss the process of decreolization that the Gullah language has been experiencing for decades now. Because of decreolization, many GG people, even the in the rural islands, will not be found speaking a Creole that approaches the more basolect forms of English Creole found elsewhere. This has led a lot of people to believe that the Gullah language is essentially the decreolized form promoted online nowadays.

In this episode, I discuss how I take a realistic approach to my work, which can sometimes put me at odds with colleagues who take a more "idealistic," romanticized approach. Realism attracts me as a scientist because of its objectivity. I go by the evidence, not the feelings.

One unfortunate evidence-based opinion is Louisiana Creole is dying and is currently functioning dead.

I eventually talk about the bigotry in the community. Some Creoles have dismissed me even from professional groups because I have different views than they do. This is odd to me because it is contrary to the very ideals that many of these very individuals support such as diversity.

Is it right to have a diversity of gender, race, etc but not diversity of thought?

I was going to make this just a trailer but...yeah lol

PICS:

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Left: The Gullah Woman cooking Rice (traditional staple) (Black Southern Bell @Pintrest)

Right: Mulatto woman(FWOC) with her enslaved person and her child in Barbados in 1770s (Agostino Brunias)

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Left: Creole girls in likely Haiti (unknown artist)

Middle: Afro-Cuban woman with Creole headresss (La Cubana by Dumna Bank)

Right: Creole women in Louisiana (Frenchcreoles.com)

We often hear a lot of comparisons between Creoles and Cajuns. However, this discussion can get further complicated when we explore that the Creoles can be further divided by historical ethnic separations. At first, it was the Free People of Color vs the enslaved Black Francophones. After the civil war, the Free People of Color lost their distinction, as now everyone was free. Therefore, they needed something else to distinguish them- or at least they tried.

Photo Credits

Left: Marine Family of South Louisiana (Ancestry: Littlewhitejeep)

Right: Unidentified family of South Louisiana (FrenchCreoles.com)

Here I review some statistics and research limitations. I explain how AncestryDNA and company work to determine your ethnicity update. I also review the history to explore why matching with a cousin in Africa is very slim for the vast majority of Black Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, and Afro-Latinos.

I cite some of the numbers from thednageek.com. Dr. Leah Larkin and other contributing members have several cMs calculators and articles detailing the use of cMs in determining genetic relationships.

I do believe with the right tester, you can match with African cousins perhaps. That will be my research question if I get my grandfather to test.

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