"The contributions of a number of First and Third World scholars to the development of the anthropology of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean have been elided from the core of the discipline as practiced in North America and Europe. As such, the anthropology of the African diaspora in the Americas can be traced to the paradigmatic debate on the origins of New World black cultures between Euro-American anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits and African American sociologist E. Franklin Frazier." (AR Journals Annual Reviews)
Discusses several studies related to pidgin and creole languages of the Caribbean region and provides a background of its origin and development. The developments in the study of pidgins and creoles includes the evolution of studies on its similarities, variability, the clarification of the debate over the origin of the Black English and the idea about it as sociolinguistic.
