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Nagel, Paul; Lee, Dayna Bowker – Social Education, 2009
What is "Creole"? The textbook answer is that the word derives from the Portuguese "crioulo" or Spanish "criollo," from the verb "to create." The term developed out of the colonial experience, and was used as a way to identify those people and things born in the New World from Old World stock. Hence, second generation French or Spanish colonial…
Descriptors: United States History, Race, Creoles, Form Classes (Languages)