Africa Today – Sterling Stuckey on Slave Culture and the Foundations of Black America
About this episode
The episode features a conversation with historian Dr. Sterling Stuckey about his work on slave culture and its impact on Black America.
Africa Today revisits a conversation with distinguished historian Dr. Sterling Stuckey about his life, scholarship, and landmark book, Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America. Stuckey reflects on African cultural continuity, the roots of Black nationalism, his involvement in the civil rights movement, and his work alongside figures including Malcolm X, Paul Robeson, C.L.R. James, Walter Rodney, and Bob Moses. A weekly news program providing information and analysis about Africa and the African Diaspora, hosted by Walter Turner. The post Africa Today – Sterling Stuckey on Slave Culture and the Foundations of Black America appeared first on KPFA.
People in this episode
Host: Walter Turner
Guest: Dr. Sterling Stuckey
Topics covered
- slave culture
- Black nationalism
- civil rights movement
- African cultural continuity
- historical scholarship
Keywords
- slave culture
- Black America
- nationalism
- civil rights
- African continuity
- historian
- Sterling Stuckey
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America
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