<<back 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 University of California, Riverside CONFERENCE PROGRAM Friday, May 21, 2004 *All Sessions are in Humanities and Social Sciences, Room 1500* 10:30am-12:00pm: 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" 1:15-3:00pm: 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" 3:15-5:00pm: 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" Jeff Neff, University of Mississippi, History: "A Bird of a Different Feather: Race and Symbol in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno" 5:15-6:45pm: Interrelated, Multiple Worlds Chair: Lamont Yeakey, California State University, Los Angeles, History Dr. James O. Jackson, Principal, The 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 are in Humanities and Social Sciences, Room 1501* 9:00am-10:30am: 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" 10:45am-12:15pm: 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" 12:15-2:30pm: Luncheon and Keynote Address Michael A. Gomez, New York University, History: "A Harvest for the People" (begins 1:45pm) 2:30-4:00pm: 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" 4:15-5:45pm: 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" Banquet Program (limited seating available) 7:00-8:00pm: Cocktails at Riverside Art Museum (5-minute walk from the Mission Inn) 8:00-10:30pm: Testimonials and Dinner Master of Ceremonies: Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside, English Testimonial Speakers: Henry McGee, Jr., Seattle University Law School, Law Delores Armour, The African Diaspora Series, Community Representative Brian D. Lloyd, University of California, Riverside, History Piotr S. Gorecki, University of California, Riverside, History Sharon Salinger, University of California, Riverside, History Francis Carney, University of California, Riverside, Political Science (retired) Kenneth D. Barkin, University of California, Riverside, History Music: Oscar Brown, Jr. For further information, please contact Chris Nielsen at 626-376-2996, or e-mail him at nielsen.chris@smc.edu <<back