Professor Stephen Tuck
Research Interests
- Anti-racist protest in the USA, including connections/comparisons abroad
- Religion, racism and protest in the USA, including connections/comparisions abroad
- Writing US history
My research interests include modern race equality struggles in Britain and America, the relationship between religion and racism, and the writing of national history. My most recent book is The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest (Berkeley, 2014). Other recent books include (with Nicolas Barrerye, Michael Heale and Cecile Vidal) You the People: writing American history abroad (California, 2014), and (with Robin Kelley) The other special relationship: race and rights in Britain and America (Palgrave, 2014). Previous books include an interpretative synthesis of the long struggle for civil rights in the United States, We Ain't What We Ought To Be: the black freedom struggle from emancipation to Obama (Cambridge, Mass, 2010) (a companion website with audiovisual materials is weaintwhatweoughttobe.com).
I am currently director of the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), and co-lead an interdisciplinary network called "Race and Resistance across borders in the long twentieth century," which is based at TORCH. My main book project is a study of the effect of white supremacy on religious faith.
Featured Publications
The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest (2014)
We Ain't What We Ought To Be (2011)
Current DPhil Students
I would like to hear from potential DPhil students in area of race and religion in modern America (including connections/comparisons abroad) or any potential Masters students studying US history MSt.; Social and Economic History MPhil
I currently teach:
Prelims |
FHS |
Approaches | Modern American History (General History XVI & XVII) |
Special Subject: Race, Religion and Resistance in Jim Crow America | |
Disciplines in History |
Research Centre
Publications
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Race not Place: The Invasion, and Possible Retreat, of British Historians of the American South
May 2020|Journal article|Journal of Southern History -
The Doubts of Their Fathers: The God Debate, and the Conflict between African American Churches and Civil Rights Organizations between the World Wars
January 2020|Journal article|Journal of Southern History -
Evangelicals and Race
January 2019|Chapter|The Routledge Research Companion to the History of Evangelicalism -
The Other Special Relationship: Race, Rights, and Riots in Britain and the United States
February 2016|c-bookThe close diplomatic, economic, and military ties that comprising the "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain have received plenty of attention from historians over the years. Less frequently noted are the countries' shared experiences of empire, white supremacy, racial inequality, and neoliberalism - and the attendant struggles for civil rights and political reform that have marked their recent history. This state-of-the-field collection traces the contours of this other "special relationship," exploring its implications for our understanding of the development of an internationally interconnected civil rights movement. Here, scholars from a range of research fields contribute essays on a wide variety of themes, from solidarity protests to calypso culture to white supremacy.History -
Fictions of Speculation Response
November 2015|Journal article|JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES