Date of Award
Fall 12-2016
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Degree Program
English
Department
English
Major Professor
Daniel Doll
Second Advisor
Earle Bryant
Third Advisor
Robert Shenk
Abstract
This thesis asserts that Marcus Bruce Christian (1900-1976), a New Orleans, Louisiana, black poet, writer, and historian, used his diary and notes as a site of rhetorical education and as a space in which he constructed and reinforced a Duboisian ethos, a particular type of black identity and character shaped by the political rhetoric of W. E. B. Du Bois. Maintaining this ethos, Christian, an autodidact throughout most of his life, negotiated a society strangled by white supremacist ideology and resisted being interpellated into the negative black identity constructed by a hostile and stifling Jim Crow South.
Recommended Citation
Adams, Nordette N., "The Diary and Notes of Marcus Christian as a Site of Rhetorical Education, Entries 1924-1945" (2016). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 2243.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2243
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