People come to the word "Creole" with assumptions already built in, and most of those assumptions are wrong. Before I can talk about what Creole is, I have to clear away what it is not. Creole Is Not a Race Creole is not a race. It never was. The word was born in the colonial Americas to describe anyone — European, African, or mixed — who was born in the colony rather than the mother country. Over generations, in Louisiana specifically, it came to describe a culture built fro