"This is OUR AMERICA, TOO": Marcus B. Christian & the History of Black Louisiana

Louisiana's unique social and cultural history with its three-tiered racial system (rather than the biracial system that governed much of the United States) left the region and the history of its black inhabitants, outside of familiar narratives of United States black history. Marcus B. Christian, the self-trained intellectual, sought to research, and make public, the history of blacks in Louisiana. His career demonstrates the importance of training, economic status, and geographical focus in the production of African American history. Many of the stories he told, through writing and research, retrieved the largely forgotten history of Creoles of color. In fact, his own story was an extension of the black intellectual traditions of that Creole population. Even as his work revealed black Louisiana's unique culture, it also served as the foundation for Christian's own intellectual legacy, one with both material and intellectual dimensions.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Year

2010

Author dc:creator

• Shy, Yulbritton

Contributors dc:contributor

• Mitchell, Mary N.
• Cassimere Jr., Raphael
• Candy, Catherine

• Marcus Christian
• Creole
• Free People of Color
• African American
• New Orleans
• Louisiana
• Historiography

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1180

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-2163