Creole identity is founded on blending and impurity, not whiteness

Evidence

Amalgamation has become integral to the historical reproduction of Creole identity. It calls for an abnegation of purity through sexual and cultural immersion. The Creole space “swallows everything up… remain[ing] permanently in motion, pushing us headlong in a movement of diversity, of change and exchange” (Taylor, 1989:142). “Blending and impurity” stand as its fundamental values (Taylor, 1989:137). With the exception of the Syrians and Lebanese whose cultural forms disappeared with creolization, immersion has acted, historically, to modify the African-European continuum in the Anglophone Caribbean. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3241

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines creolization’s core conceptual value: amalgamation as deliberate abandonment of purity, and how it modifies the African-European continuum.
• XREF: connects to: Culture’s creole explosion marks consensual, not imposed, sharing. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 240; Creole language variation prevents identity from reifying into essence — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 349