An investigation of Spanish-Creole languages in Latin America. After a socio-cultural and ethnological survey of the "transculturation" of ethnic groups of African origin, "creole" is defined as a third linguistic stratum between the African languages of slaves in America, and the official European languages. There is only an apparent lack of Spanish Creoles in South America. The black communities established in the old Cimarron settlements still manifest some Spanish Creole. (In Spanish)
Traces the author's journey as a Black Caribbean immigrant from Haiti to the United States. Describes the underlying factors that led to the author's relocation in the U.S. diaspora while at the same time examining the ways in which the author has been racially and linguistically positioned. The author further explains the negotiation of this position. The author's immigrant story is situated in the larger U.S. sociopolitical, linguistic, and racial context where immigrants, particularly immigrants of color, have faced many challenges.
