Exactly what is a Black Creole Person?

Question

I am a louisiana resident and I know what a creole person is,but exactly what is meant when a person says that you look like you are black creole? That is confusing 2 me.

here is a pic so u can know why they make this judgement.

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Answer 1

I am a Black Creole person because I am a Black woman from Guadeloupe, French West Indies and that I speak creole..

Answer 2

According to this website, a black creole is a person of Afro-Carribean ancestry who is a native of Louisiana:

http://www.cajunculture.com/Other/blackcreole.htm

Answer 3

WELL THAT IS CONFUSING BECAUSE CREOLE IS BLACK, FRENCH AND NATIVE AMERICAN. I GUESS THEY MEAN YOU LOOK MORE BLACK THAN FRENCH AND NATIVE AMERICAN. I GUESS THE STEREOTYPICAL CREOLE HAS LIGHT SKIN AND WAVY HAIR. I DON'T REALLY KNOW, BUT THE PEOPLE ABOVE ME SEEM TO HAVE FOUND SOME INFO ABOUT IT.

Answer 4

Always a controversial and confusing term, the word Creole, to put it simply, means many things to many people. It derives from the Latin creare, meaning "to beget" or "create." After the New World’s discovery, Portuguese colonists used the word crioulo to denote a New World slave of African descent. Eventually, the word was applied to all New World colonists, regardless of ethnic origin, living along the Gulf Coast, especially in Louisiana. There the Spanish introduced the word as criollo, and during Louisiana’s colonial period (1699-1803) the evolving word Creole generally referred to persons of African or European heritage born in the New World. By the nineteenth century, black, white, and mixed-race Louisianians used the term to distinguish themselves from foreign-born and Anglo-American settlers. It was during that century that the mixed-race Creoles of Color (or gens de couleur libre, "free persons of color") came into their own as an ethnic group, enjoying many of the legal rights and privileges of whites. They occupied a middle ground between whites and enslaved blacks, and as such often possessed property and received formal educations. After the Civil War, most Creoles of Color lost their privileged status and joined the ranks of impoverished former black slaves. All the while, however, the word Creole persisted as a term also referring to white Louisianians, usually of upper-class, non-Cajun origin (although, confusingly, even Cajuns sometimes were called Creoles, primarily by outsiders unfamiliar with local ethnic labels). Like the Creoles of Color, these white Creoles (also called French Creoles) suffered socioeconomic decline after the Civil War. In Acadiana, newly impoverished white Creoles often intermarried with the predominantly lower-class Cajuns, and were largely assimilated into Cajun culture. Many names of French Creole origin, like Soileau, Fontenot, and François, are now widely considered Cajun. And today Creole is most often used in Acadiana to refer to persons of full or mixed African heritage. It is generally understood among these Creoles that Creole of Color still refers to Creoles of mixed-race heritage, while the term black Creole refers to Creoles of more or less pure African descent. Increasingly, both African-derived groups are putting aside old animosities (based largely on skin color and social standing) to work for mutual preservation, and as such often merely describe themselves as Creole. In 1982 they founded a preservation group, C.R.E.O.L.E., Inc. (Cultural Resourceful Educational Opportunities toward Linguistic Enrichment), which operates along the lines of CODOFIL. In 1990 they began to publish Creole Magazine, which contains articles by and about Creoles in southwest Louisiana. Their popular ethnic music, known as zydeco, is celebrated annually at the Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Festival in Plaisance. Creoles of African descent exerted a strong influence on Cajun culture (and vice versa), affecting, for example, the Cajuns' music, foodways, and religious practices. Ultimately, however, the word Creole remains murky, with some individuals (black, white, and mixed-race) futilely claiming the right of exclusive use. As the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture states, perhaps the "safest" course is to say that a Creole is "anyone who says he is one."