Sterling Stuckey

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P. Sterling Stuckey (March 2, 1932 – August 15, 2018)

Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), specializing in American slavery, the arts and history, and Afro-American intellectual and cultural history.[3][4]

Biography

Stuckey earned his Ph.D. in history from

UCLA in 1975-76, an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, in 1980–81, a Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution in 1987–88; and a Fellow at the Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine , in 1991–92. He was with the University of California, Riverside (UCR) since 1989,[4][3] retiring in 2004.[2]

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary edition of his fundamental book Slave Culture, The Journal of African American History published a 25-page interview with Stuckey.[5]

Books

  • Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory & the Foundations of Black America, 1987, ; 2nd edition 2013
  • Going Through the Storm: The Influence of African American Art in History, 1994
  • African Culture and Melville's Art: The Creative Process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick, 2011
  • (with Linda Kerrigan Salvucci) Call to Freedom: Beginnings to 1877, 2003,
  • (with Linda Kerrigan Salvucci) Call to Freedom: Beginnings to 1914 (3rd edition)
  • Paul Boyer, Sterling Stuckey (2005). American Nation: In the Modern Era. Holt, Rinehart, & Winston.

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