Marie Marcelle Buteau Racine

Marie Marcelle Buteau Racine was a professor of linguistics.

Biography Marie Marcelle Buteau Racine was born on May 31, 1934, in Les Cayes, Haiti. She was a Haitian professor of linguistics and a founding member of the Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen/Haitian Creole Academy. She emigrated to the United States in 1963 with her husband and later earned a M.A. in French from Howard University and a PhD in French and Theoretical Linguistics from Georgetown University. She would later teach at the University of the District of Columbia while being involved in social issues related to education, women's rights, and justice in Haiti, Latin America, and the United States. She died July 23, 2020, at the age of 86.

Career Racine was hired by Federal City College (later University of the District of Columbia) in 1969.

Personal life Buteau married Étzer Racine and had two children, daughter Mikaele, and son Karl Anthony Racine, a prominent lawyer and politician and current attorney general of the District of Columbia.

Selected works Racine, M. M. B. (1970). French and Creole lexico-semantic conflicts: A contribution to the study of languages in contact in the Haitian diglossic situation. Racine, M. M. B. (1976). A linguistic study of southern Haitian Creole: Phonology. Howard University. Racine, M. M. B. (1981). Adaptation of Haitian students to American schools. Racine, M. M. B. (1982). Influences on curriculum development in the public schools of Washington, D.C., 1804–1982. Dept. of Urban Studies, University of the District of Columbia. Racine, M. M. B., & Morisseau-Leroy, F. (1975). French Creole In The Caribbean. CLA Journal, 18(4), 491–500. Racine, M. M. B., Ogle, K., & Ecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean. (1999). Like the dew that waters the grass: Words from Haitian women. Racine, M. M. B., & Rode, M. E. (1989). Critical junctures: The process of change in public higher education in Washington, D.C., 1977–1987. Center for Applied Research and Urban Policy, University of the District of Columbia. Tatàn, & Racine, M. M. B. (1998). From “Like the Dew That Waters the Grass: Words from Haitian Women.” Women's Studies Quarterly, 26(3/4), 40–47.