Kamau Braithwaite
February 4, 2020
What is the day Kamau Braithwaithe died?
A process of cultural mixture referring specifically to the adoption of African, European, and Indigenous traits in language, religion, food, and identity
What is the broadest definition of Creolisation?
The extensive borrowing of cultural traits by one group from another.
What is Acculturation.
The result of interbreeding of different racial backgrounds or ancestry.
What is Racial Admixture?
A way of seeing the society, not in terms of white and black, master and slave, in separate nuclear units, but as contributory parts of a whole”
What is Kamau Brathwaite's description of creolisation?
1987
When is the year Hatian creole became an official language?
When slaves are branded, given a new name, apprenticed to already creolised slaves, taught the rudiments of the new language orally, and initiated into the relevant work routines.
What is the first stage of acculturisation?
Someone of European and Latin American ancestry.
What is a mestizo?
Edward Kamau Braithwaite got the name Kamau from this person.
Who is Ngugi wa Thiong'o?
A language which resulted from the contact between European colonizers, African enslaved people, and the indigenous Taino people.
What is Hatian Creole?
A process that involves the movement of one group to live amongst another as a mechanism of producing traditional acculturation via direct sustained contact between newcomers and natives.
What is immigration?
Caribbean person of European and African descent.
What is a Creole person?
Rights of Passage (1967), Masks (1968), and Islands (1969).
What is The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy?
The term used to describe the offspring of a union between persons of African and Indian ancestry.
What is a Dougla?
A modern form of acculturation as a result from contact with a distant culture via globalization.
What is remote acculturaton?
The first-generation offspring of a black person and a white person.
What is a mulatto?
He was the co-founder of this movement which began in 1966.
What is Kamau Braithwaite's contribution towards the Caribbean Artist Movement?
The year Haiti gained independence from France and French became the language of the government.
What is 1804?
Slaves are encouraged to identify with their fellow slaves through the gang system and through communal recreational activities such as drumming and dancing and festivals.
What is socialisation, the third stage of acculturisation?
The caribbean country that has the highest level of West African ancestry.
What is Barbados?