Dickson D. Bruce

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Dickson "Dave" Davies Bruce Jr. (April 11, 1946 - November 24, 2014) was a history professor and author in the United States whose research focused on cultural and intellectual history of African Americans. [1] [2] He taught at the University of California at Irvine. [3] He received the James Mooney Award from the Southern Anthropological Society in 1973 for his book And They All Sang Hallelujah. [4]

Bruce was born in Dallas and raised in Lubbock, Texas. He received a bachelor's degree in from UT Austin in 1967 and a doctorate from University of Pennsylvania in 1971. He joined the faculty at UC Irvine in the same year and taught there for more than 35 years before retiring in 2008 as Professor of History. During his career, he served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, and Director of the Program in Comparative Cultures. [4] [1]

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  1. 1 2 "UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System - Dickson D. Bruce". www.faculty.uci.edu.
  2. ↑ "Dickson Davies Bruce Jr., obituary" by Peyton McCrary, The Journal of Southern History; Houston Vol. 81, Iss. 2, (May 2015): 552-553
  3. ↑ https://lsupress.org/authors/detail/dickson-d-bruce/
  4. 1 2 "Dickson Davies Bruce Jr. Obituary (1946 - 2014) Orange County Register". Legacy.com.
  5. ↑ Dickson, Bruce D. (1974). "The "John and Old Master" Stories and the World of Slavery: A Study in Folktales and History". Phylon. 35 (4): 418–429. doi:10.2307/274744. ISSN   0031-8906. JSTOR   274744.
  6. ↑ Miller, David Y. (2019-07-23). Slavery and Slaving in World History: A Bibliography, 1900-91: v. 1: A Bibliography, 1900-91. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-315-50239-7.
  7. ↑ Violence and Culture in the Antebellum South By Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. June 5, 1979 – via utpress.utexas.edu.
  8. ↑ Bruce, Dickson D. (2013-08-21). Violence and Culture in the Antebellum South. University of Texas Press. ISBN   978-0-292-75819-3.
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