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creolize
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Verb1.creolize - develop into a creole; "pidgins often creolize"
change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"


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However, Miranda directed the actress, Minda Delgado, to infuse the batuque with ballet movements, deliberately creolizing Cape Verde's most "African" dance form.
Balancing the familiar with the formal, creolizing written and oral impulses, Yancey marks in her poetry a crossroads for African Americans in an ongoing struggle for creative legitimacy, popular recognition, and self-determination.
Bongie, of course, acknowledges this, but by abandoning the roots-oriented search for the knowing (but ineffective) nod that ours is a creolizing world, his method tends to see history as the handmaiden to identity (rather than vice versa).
 
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