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Africans, Culture, and Intellectuals in North America :
P. Sterling Stuckey and the Folk
A Celebration of the Work and Legacy of
P. Sterling Stuckey
on the Occasion of His Retirement
Conference Program
Friday, May 21, 2004
*All Sessions today are in Humanities and Social Sciences, Room 1500*
University of California, Riverside
10:30 am-12:00 pm : Carrying on the Work
Chair: Thandekile Mvusi , Jackson State University , History
Jermaine Archer , University of California , Riverside , History: “The Circle Continues: Harriet Jacobs's Recollection of John Kunering and Harriet Tubman's Role as a Conjure Doctor”
Jennifer Hildebrand , University of California , Riverside , History: “Mr. Very Unique”
Frans Ntloedibe , University of California , Riverside , History: “A Question of Origins: Revisiting The Birth of African American Culture in the Americas ”
Karen Wilson , University of California , Riverside , History: “Women's Work: Enslaved Women's Stories Through Head, Hand and Heart”
12:00-1:15 pm : Lunch Break
1:15-3:00 pm : The Scholar and the Politics of Scholarship
Chair: James Brennan , University of California , Riverside , History
Peter Carroll , Independent Scholar, History: “ Sterling Stuckey and the Restructuring of American History: Some Personal Perspectives”
David C. Dennard , East Carolina University , History: “Applauding and Remembering the Scholarship of a Consummate Folk Historian”
Lewis V. Baldwin , Vanderbilt, Religious Studies: “On Being African: Sterling Stuckey's Contributions to the Study of Black Nationalist Theory and Practice”
Jason Young , State University of New York , Buffalo , History: “Through the Prism of Slave Art: A Reflection on the Activism and Scholarship of P. Sterling Stuckey”
Scot Brown , University of California , Los Angeles , History: “1960s Black Cultural Nationalism and Ritual: Slave Culture and Interpretive Approaches to Recent Pan-African Cultural Invention – The Case of the Taifa Dance Troupe”
3:15-5:00 pm : Slavery and Antinomies of Race
Chair: Roger Ransom , University of California , Riverside , History
Fred Knight , Colorado State University, History: “Martin Delany, Slave Labor, and African-American Claims as Citizens”
Norrece T. Jones, Jr. , Virginia Commonwealth University , History: “The Evidence of Things Not Seen: African Religion and the Faith of the Enslaved”
Bernard E. Powers, Jr. , College of Charleston , History: “‘Redeeming the Race': The Reconstruction Work of Rev. Richard H. Cain in South Carolina ”
Cheryl Johnson-Odim , Columbia College , Chicago , History: “Black Women, Black Men: The Manipulation of Gender in the Development of Racism in the United States”
John Neff , University of Mississippi, History: “A Bird of a Different Feather: Race and Symbol in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno”
5:15-6:45 pm : Interrelated, Multiple Worlds
Chair: Lamont Yeakey , California State University, Los Angeles , History
Dr. James O. Jackson , Principal, Shaker High School in Latham , New York : “The Influence of the Haytian Revolution”
Michael Jones, Kentucky Historical Society: “Joining the Ranks: African Americans in the Military”
Jean Allman , University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign, History: “Nuclear Colonialism and the Pan-African Struggle for Peace and Freedom: Ghana , 1959-1966"
Glennon Graham , Columbia College , Chicago , History: “Reflections On the Urban Folk: Lake Street Chicago , 1920-1939”
Saturday, May 22, 2004
*All Sessions today are in Humanities and Social Sciences, Room 1501*
University of California, Riverside
9:00-10:30 am : Legacies
Chair: Robert L. Harris, Jr. , Cornell University , History
Giles Wright , New Jersey Historical Commission, History: “ Sterling Stuckey as Friend and Historian: An Indebtedness”
Clement Alexander Price , Rutgers University , History: “On Anchoring a Generation of Scholars: P. Sterling Stuckey and the Nationalist Persuasion in African American History”
George Fredrickson , Stanford University , History: “The Contribution of Sterling Stuckey's Through the Prism of Folklore to the Historiography of Slavery”
David Roediger , University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign, History: “ Sterling Brown and the Future of Labor Studies”
10:45 am-12:15 pm : Art, Music and Memory
Chair: Dale Kent , University of California , Riverside , History
Raymond Doswell , Negro Leagues Baseball Museum : “Shades of Greatness: Art Inspired by Negro Leagues Baseball”
Josephine Wright , The College of Wooster , Music: “Sacred Songs of the American Slave: Songs of Remembrance”
Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. , John Hope Franklin Research Fellow, National Humanities Center , Music: “Researching the Deep South : A Neglected Area in the Scholarship on Black Music”
John Szwed , Yale University , Anthropology: “Mr. Jelly Roll, Mr. Lomax, and the Invention of Jazz”
12:15-1:45 pm : Lunch Break
1:45-2:30 p.m. : Keynote Address
Michael A. Gomez , New York University , History
“A Harvest for the People”
2:30-4:00 pm : Literature and the Folk Imaginary
Chair: Emory Elliott , University of California , Riverside , English
Mae Henderson , University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill , English: “The ‘Thing' to Fear: The ‘White Africanist Presence' in the Black and White American Literary Imaginary”
Eric Sundquist , University of California , Los Angeles , English: “Paule Marshall and the Black Diaspora”
Roger D. Abrahams , University of Pennsylvania , Folklore, English: “Joe Harris and the Exploding Pumpkin”
Carolyn Karcher , Temple University , English (retired): “ Moby Dick and the War on Terror”
4:15-5:45 pm : Learned Consecrations
Chair: Robert Hill , University of California , Los Angeles , History
Gladys-Marie Fry , University of Maryland , Folklore (retired): “‘A Sermon in Patchwork': New Light on Harriette Powers”
Vincent Wimbush , Claremont Graduate University , Religion: “African Americans and the TEXTureS of the Sacred”
Margaret Washington , Cornell University , History and Religion: “Sojourner Truth and ‘Arn't I a Woman?' Through the Prism of Folklore”
Charles Long , University of California , Santa Barbara , Religion (emeritus): “Religious Orientation in the Formation of African American Culture”
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