Creolized language threatens colonizers by enabling resistance in their presence

Evidence

One sees here the threads of a threat hybridity represents to prevailing power, the threat of losing control faced by the colonizers in failing to understand a hybrid language in terms of which critical and resistant formulations might be fashioned, in a sense to their face. Insult added to injury. Hence the multitude of laws against racially defined immigration, miscegenation, cross-racial intercourse (sexual or cultural), racially conceived cultural expressions and practices identified with otherness (like Ebonics as a teaching medium). — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 19

Categorization

• SHARE: Good for someone studying linguistic colonialism or creole studies — the point that administrators banned creoles specifically because they feared being unable to understand resistance hatched in them.
• XREF: connects to: Creolization process resists both universal Being and fixed ethnic grounding — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 464; Entire communities can collectively subvert a dominant language from within — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 549; the MOC “The Tongue of Power: When Language Becomes the Battlefield of Empire” (+1 more)

Related

• Creolization process resists both universal Being and fixed ethnic grounding (similarity 0.85)
• Subjugated cultures subvert dominant codes by rearticulating and creolizing their signs (similarity 0.81)
• Creole discourse normalized racial hierarchy while hiding its exploitative basis. (similarity 0.80)
• Only French among European colonial languages in the Caribbean yielded compromise Creoles (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial languages developed by enslaved Africans were all denigrated as broken dialects (similarity 0.79)
• Creolization institutionalized divide-and-rule that split the colonized from each other. (similarity 0.78)
• White creole privilege survived decolonization through hybridity discourse rather than open racism (similarity 0.78)