Scholars such as historian Sterling Stuckey have remarked upon the connection between Walker's "Appeal" and black nationalism. In his 1972 study of "The Ideological Origins of Black Nationalism", Stuckey suggested that Walker's "Appeal" "would become an ideological foundation... for Black Nationalist theory." Though some historians have said that Stuckey overstated the extent to which Walker contributed to the creation of a black nation, Thabiti Asukile, in a 1999 article on "The All-Embracing Black Nationalist Theories of David Walker's Appeal", defended Stuckey's interpretation. Asukile writes: