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William Lindsey :toad:<p>If they knew that one of the spouses had even a drop of "black" blood, they'd report them to the authorities, since miscegenation was still against the law.</p><p>And so it goes…. Racial classification is a totally artificial scheme of dividing people into groups, about as credible and arbitrary as dividing people into big-foot and little-foot people, or large-nosed or small-nosed people. </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pope</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/LeoXIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeoXIV</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/African" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>African</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Creole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creole</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NewOrleans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewOrleans</span></a> <br>/8</p>
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William Lindsey :toad:<p>He told me that he had relatives who would go to get a driver's license and depending on how they looked, they'd be registered as white or black.</p><p>The one-drop rule was still alive and well when I was in school in New Orleans. There was a group of Catholic women called something like the Catholic Daughters who considered it their mission to scan the newspaper daily for engagement announcements.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pope</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/LeoXIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeoXIV</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/African" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>African</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Creole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creole</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NewOrleans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewOrleans</span></a> <br>/7</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Like many of the students I'd teach when I began teaching at Xavier University, she was classified as black in the crazy scheme used to classify people as black or white. Though she looked totally Caucasian….</p><p>Another of my close friends at Loyola grew up on an island In Mobile Bay whose inhabitants have long been Creoles of mixed racial ancestry. </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pope</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/LeoXIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeoXIV</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/African" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>African</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Creole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creole</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NewOrleans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewOrleans</span></a> <br>/6</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>One of my friends when I was in college at Loyola was a beautiful young woman who was blonde and blue-eyed. We went on several dates together. When I happened to ask her what high school she went to, she told me she went to Xavier's high school. Naively, I was surprised and said, "But that's a Black school, isn't it?"</p><p>She then said, "But I'm Black!"</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pope</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/LeoXIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeoXIV</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/African" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>African</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Creole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creole</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NewOrleans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewOrleans</span></a> <br>/5</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>None of this is news to me, either, because 1) I have some family roots going back to New Orleans and surrounding areas in the early 1820s, 2) I went to college at Loyola in New Orleans and then returned to teach at the historically black university Xavier there, 3) researching family history has made me very aware of how common it was for white families to have biracial relatives.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pope</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/LeoXIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeoXIV</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/African" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>African</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Creole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creole</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NewOrleans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewOrleans</span></a> <br>/4</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"'Passing' for white has also been the subject of several best-selling novels over the years and well-documented by historians, anthropologists, and sociologists.</p><p>I did research on the subject for an anthropology dissertation and have written frequently about 'race' as a social construct, racism as a harsh reality, 'miscegenation,' and free people of color in New Orleans and other parts of the South in past stories here at Daily Kos."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pope</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/LeoXIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeoXIV</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/African" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>African</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Creole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creole</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NewOrleans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewOrleans</span></a> <br>/3</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>That is, his family members on that side of his family would have been classified as Black under the one-drop rule that long obtained in US culture. One drop of African ancestry, and you're black….</p><p>She writes, </p><p>"What I find fascinating is the media’s sudden interest in a Creole history that is not news to me, or to many other Black people familiar with issues of 'race,' color, and ancestry in Louisiana and the larger Black community."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pope</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/LeoXIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeoXIV</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/African" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>African</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Creole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creole</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NewOrleans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewOrleans</span></a> <br>/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Denise Oliver Velez, whose ancestral family circle includes Creoles of color in south Louisiana, has written a fascinating article about how the media are now covering the discovery that Pope Leo is descended from Creoles of color in New Orleans: </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pope</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/LeoXIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeoXIV</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/African" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>African</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Creole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creole</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NewOrleans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewOrleans</span></a> <br>/1</p><p><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/17/2321695/-Caribbean-Matters-Exploring-the-new-pope-s-Black-Caribbean-ancestry" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/17</span><span class="invisible">/2321695/-Caribbean-Matters-Exploring-the-new-pope-s-Black-Caribbean-ancestry</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Okay, yeah, you all know that I don’t share any information that might identify me. Not in this America. Still, some things are more important than <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a>.So here is a nugget.<br>Funnily enough, we are all full blown <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/atheists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atheists</span></a>.</p><p>Anyway, please read a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NYT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYT</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GiftArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GiftArticle</span></a> that includes my closest relative & friend <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MarkRoudan%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarkRoudané</span></a> about historic <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NewOrleans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewOrleans</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Creole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creole</span></a> culture, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FamilyMythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FamilyMythology</span></a> & the deep weirdness of “<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/passing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>passing</span></a>”.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistory</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>truth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fact</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/us/creole-identity-history-pope-new-orleans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GU8.dFiy.fR34VUAXbV5y&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/05/11/us/creo</span><span class="invisible">le-identity-history-pope-new-orleans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GU8.dFiy.fR34VUAXbV5y&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>
Joshua McNeill<p>So, even this <a href="https://h4.io/tags/NYTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYTimes</span></a> piece, despite using valid historical sources, gets things wrong. <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Creole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creole</span></a> was never really shorthand for "Creole people of color", and this focus on skin color was really not the issue at all, as it isn't generally when talking about <a href="https://h4.io/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>race</span></a>. A race is simply a group of people who have been <a href="https://h4.io/tags/racialized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racialized</span></a> in order to justify exploiting them.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/pope-leo-creole-new-orleans.html?ref=levelman.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/pope</span><span class="invisible">-leo-creole-new-orleans.html?ref=levelman.com</span></a></p>
Joshua McNeill<p>4) In the 20th century up to the present, South <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Louisianians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Louisianians</span></a> use <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Cajun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cajun</span></a> generally as a synonym for <a href="https://h4.io/tags/White" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>White</span></a> and <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Creole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creole</span></a> generally as a synonym for <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a>.</p><p>But while the revisionist history put forth in (3) did not hold for how locals define <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Creoles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creoles</span></a> today, it has become the prevalent misconception about what <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Creole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creole</span></a> meant in the early <a href="https://h4.io/tags/colonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonial</span></a> years. Also, in the 21st century especially, there have been activists who've sought to recapture the original use of <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Creole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creole</span></a> as just meaning 'local'</p><p>..</p>
Joshua McNeill<p>1) <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Creole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creole</span></a> meant 'local' even into the 19th century (i.e., all native-born <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Louisianians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Louisianians</span></a> were <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Creoles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creoles</span></a>)</p><p>2) The <a href="https://h4.io/tags/LouisianaPurchase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LouisianaPurchase</span></a> and <a href="https://h4.io/tags/racial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racial</span></a> tensions before and after the <a href="https://h4.io/tags/CivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilWar</span></a> complicated the picture in the 19th century</p><p>3) Post Civil War, <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Whites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Whites</span></a> made concerted efforts to revise history so that Creole meant <a href="https://h4.io/tags/White" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>White</span></a> Louisianian of <a href="https://h4.io/tags/European" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>European</span></a> ancestry, and therefore collapsed former Free people of color in with former enslaved people as Black.</p><p>...</p><p><a href="https://h4.io/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Louisiana</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pope</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/LeoXIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeoXIV</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>race</span></a></p>
Joshua McNeill<p>Not surprising that <a href="https://h4.io/tags/PopeLeoXIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PopeLeoXIV</span></a>'s <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Creole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creole</span></a> ancestry is poorly described by the <a href="https://h4.io/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a>, even <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> media. This one got a good amount right, but importantly misunderstands that the distinction between 19th century <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Creoles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creoles</span></a> of color and <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Blacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blacks</span></a> was that the the latter were <a href="https://h4.io/tags/enslaved" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enslaved</span></a> and the former weren't (or were no longer). As a primer, ...</p><p><a href="https://h4.io/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Louisiana</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pope</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>race</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sociology</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Catholicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Catholicism</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Catholics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Catholics</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.levelman.com/is-pope-leo-xiv-black/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">levelman.com/is-pope-leo-xiv-b</span><span class="invisible">lack/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>“I hate to say it, but we feel, many of us, that our history was hidden from us,” said Ms. Villavasso Cherrie, 79, a retired teacher. In part, she said, that’s because many Creoles have been able to “pass” as white over the years.<br>It was only w/the advent of the internet, she said, that many people began to research their family history & became aware of their <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Creole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creole</span></a> roots. She noted that a significant number of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Louisiana</span></a> Creoles migrated to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chicago</span></a> area in the 20th century.<br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pope</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LeoXIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeoXIV</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Over the decades, they established a foothold in business, the building trades and the arts, particularly music, w/significant contributions to the development of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jazz</span></a>. They continue to be an important strand in the city’s famously <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/heterogeneous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>heterogeneous</span></a> culture.</p><p>The revelation of the new <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pope</span></a>’s heritage is a tremendous moment for the history of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Louisiana</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Creoles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creoles</span></a>, said Lolita Villavasso Cherrie, a co-founder with Mr. Honora of The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Creole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creole</span></a> Genealogical & Historical Association.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LeoXIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeoXIV</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Creoles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creoles</span></a>, also known as “Creole people of color,” have a history almost as old as <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Louisiana</span></a>. While the word <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Creole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creole</span></a> can refer to people of European descent who were born in the Americas, it commonly describes mixed-race people of color.</p><p>Many Louisiana Creoles were known in the 18th & 19th centuries as “gens de couleur libres,” or free people of color. Many were well educated, French-speaking & Roman Catholic.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pope</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LeoXIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeoXIV</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Joseph Martinez’s exact place of birth remains a bit of a mystery—Honora also found an 1870 Census record that says the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pope</span></a>’s maternal grandfather was born in Louisiana. But he said it was not uncommon for people to change their responses on ofcl records.</p><p>Joseph Martinez & Louise Baquié married at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NewOrleans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewOrleans</span></a>. Until it was destroyed by a hurricane in 1915, the church bldg was on Annette Street in the city’s 7th Ward, a historic center of Afro-<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Creole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creole</span></a> culture.</p>
Nonilex<p>It’s unclear whether the new <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pope</span></a> has ever addressed his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Creole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creole</span></a> ancestry in public, & his brother said that the family did not identify as <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a>. The announcement of his election in Rome focused on his early life in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chicago</span></a> & decades of service in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Peru" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Peru</span></a>.</p><p>Honora, who works at the Historic <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NewOrleans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewOrleans</span></a> Collection, a museum in the French Quarter, began investigating the pope’s background because of his French-sounding name, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/prevost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prevost</span></a> but quickly found connections to the South instead.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LeoXIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeoXIV</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>New <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pope</span></a> Has <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Creole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Creole</span></a> Roots in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NewOrleans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewOrleans</span></a></p><p>His ancestry, traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture, links <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LeoXIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeoXIV</span></a> to the rich & sometimes overlooked <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Catholic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Catholic</span></a> experience in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a>.</p><p>Robert Francis <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Prevost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prevost</span></a>, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chicago</span></a>-born cardinal selected on Thurs as the new pope, is descended from Creole people of color from New Orleans.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/pope-leo-creole-new-orleans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=6B3B45C4-19FA-473D-B6BD-A937C1601A35" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/pope</span><span class="invisible">-leo-creole-new-orleans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=6B3B45C4-19FA-473D-B6BD-A937C1601A35</span></a></p>
Joshua McNeill<p>Les <a href="https://h4.io/tags/cr%C3%A9olistes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>créolistes</span></a> aiment bien l'idée des marqueurs dans les <a href="https://h4.io/tags/cr%C3%A9oles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>créoles</span></a>, mais c'est vraiment un cas d'exoticiser le parler d'autrui. Un marqueur est peu souvent concevoir comme une catégorie lexicale, laissé vague, et les critères quand il est ainsi conçu sont sans motivations, tandis qu'une analyse semblable à celle de son lexificateur suffirait. DeGraff (2005) a averti des maux de cet exceptionnalisme <a href="https://h4.io/tags/cr%C3%A9ole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>créole</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://h4.io/tags/linguistique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistique</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/sociolinguistique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sociolinguistique</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/cr%C3%A9olistique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>créolistique</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/syntaxe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>syntaxe</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/morphologie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>morphologie</span></a></p>
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