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The Americanization

of the Louisiana Creole Language


 

 
 

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The Creole Language


There are 3 basic French Language types spoken in Louisiana

 

 

 

 

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Louisiana... Afro/Creoleck

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Three Generations,

Two Languages

The Civil War and Reconstruction accelerated the process of Americanization and drove Creole and French languages and cultures into increasing isolation. Public schools, temporarily integrated by the Constitution of 1868, outlawed the use of French in the classroom.

The constitution also required that all court and municipal records be recorded in English. As a new generation learned to read and write in English, the use of French and Creole became more family-based - spoken at home with parents and grandparents but not in public.

The three generations shown here illustrate the process. The grandmother probably spoke only Creole, the mother both Creole and English, and the boy only English. The Haitian immigration had slowed, but not stopped, the Americanization process. It had also left a profound mark on the political, cultural, artistic, religious, and social life of the state.

Image ID:
1165418

Title:

Three generations of Louisiana negroes; Grandmother can only talk Creole French; mother talks French and English; boy only talks English.

Source:

The Negro in the New World / by Sir Harry H. Johnston ; with one illustration in colour by the author and 390 black and white illustrations by the author and others ; maps by Mr. J. W. Addison.

Name:

Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir (1858-1927) - Author

Location:

General Research and Reference Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Subjects:

African American families

 

Creoles

 

Louisiana


Keywords:

Children - Louisiana

 

Creoles

 

Family - Louisiana

 

French Language

 

Haitian Migration

Source.

The New Your Public Library

 

Louisiana... Afro/Creoleck

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