Flore Zéphir
Haitian writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Flore Zéphir was a Haitian American academic and author. Biography The daughter of Sylla Zéphir and France Garoute, she was born in Jérémie, Haiti. Zéphir came to the United States in 1975. She received a BA in French and Education from Hunter College in New York City and received two MAss and a PhD in French linguistics from Indiana University Bloomington. She has been teaching in the Romance Languages and Literatures department of the University of Missouri since 1988; she was department chair from fall 2008 to summer 2014. From August 2008 to December 2016, she was director of the Afro-Romance Institute at the University of Missouri. She received a number of awards, including a William T. Kemper Award for excellence in teaching, over her career. She conducted research into foreign language education, bilingual education, Creole studies, and ethnic and immigrant studies with particular emphasis on Haitians in the United States. She was a guest lecturer at the University of Florida-Gainesville, Vanderbilt University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and Northwestern University.
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- The Haitian Americans (2004) (60)
- Haitian Immigrants in Black America: A Sociological and Sociolinguistic Portrait (1996) (54)
- Trends in Ethnic Identification Among Second-Generation Haitian Immigrants in New York City: (2001) (47)
- Focus on Form and Meaning: Perspectives of Developing Teachers and Action‐Based Research (2000) (24)
- Haitian Creole Language and Bilingual Education in the United States: Problem, Right, Or Resource?. (1997) (16)
- HAITI RISING: HAITIAN HISTORY, CULTURE, AND THE EARTHQUAKE OF 2010 (2011) (14)
- The social value of French for bilingual Haitian immigrants (1997) (14)
- Challenges for Multicultural Education: Sociolinguistic Parallels Between African American English and Haitian Creole. (1999) (11)
- Haitian Creole-English Bilingual Dictionary (2008) (9)
- Caribbean crossing: African Americans and the Haitian emigration movement (2016) (6)
- Caribbean films in the French curriculum : Strengthening linguistic and multicultural competency (1999) (4)
- Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith: Haitian Religion in Miami (2014) (3)
- Challenges and opportunities for Haitian Creole in the educational system of post-earthquake Haiti (2015) (3)
- Creolist Michel Degraff: A Profile of Commitment, Advocacy, Excellence, and Hope (2012) (1)
- The French language and questions of identity (2010) (1)
- Book Reviews (2008) (0)
- Bilingual Education: An Introductory Reader edited by GARCÍA, OFELIA, & COLIN BAKER (2009) (0)
- Haitian Creole via Total Physical Response; An Introduction. (1984) (0)
- The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States (2001) (0)
- Encyclopedia of Multicultural Education: Bruce Mitchell and Robert Salsbury (2000) (0)
- Juggling with two cultures: transnationalism and hybridity as cultural outcomes of immigration for Haitians in the United States (2008) (0)
- Ethnic Studies and Foreign Language Teacher Education in the United States: A Response to Population Shifts (2000) (0)
- Dany Laferrière and Michaëlle Jean: Two Haitian Diasporic Players on the World Stage (2015) (0)
- La Parole indomptée/Pawòl an mawonnaj. Memwa baboukèt/Mémoire de la muselière by Tontongi (review) (2016) (0)
- Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America: Rubén Rumbaut and Alejandro Portes (eds ). (2002) (0)
- Questions creoles, questions linguistiques. Edited by Jean Haudrey (1994) (0)
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