Race/racism and the late Prof. Frederic G. Cassidy

[Fred Shapiro]

On the web I find a memorial resolution of the University of Wisconsin
faculty containing the following information:

"Cassidy's interest in Creole English came naturally enough -- he was born
in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1907, to a Canadian father and a Jamaican mother.
He grew up hearing their two varieties of standard British English and the
Creole variety of the Black majority as well."

I'm not certain how to interpret this, but it sounds like his mother was
Jamaican but not a member of the Black majority.

Fred Shapiro


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