by Reiland Rabaka
Reconstructing
the Black Radical Tradition, from W.E.B. Du Bois and C.L.R. James to
Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral.
Building on and going far beyond W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century and Du Bois's Dialectics, Reiland Rabaka's Africana Critical Theory innovatively identifies and analyzes continental and diasporan African contributions to classical and contemporary critical theory. This book represents a climatic critical theoretical clincher that cogently demonstrates how Du Bois's rarely discussed dialectical thought, interdisciplinarity, intellectual history-making radical political activism, and world-historical multiple liberation movement leadership helped to inaugurate a distinct Africana tradition of critical theory.
Click here to download this book in pdf.Building on and going far beyond W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century and Du Bois's Dialectics, Reiland Rabaka's Africana Critical Theory innovatively identifies and analyzes continental and diasporan African contributions to classical and contemporary critical theory. This book represents a climatic critical theoretical clincher that cogently demonstrates how Du Bois's rarely discussed dialectical thought, interdisciplinarity, intellectual history-making radical political activism, and world-historical multiple liberation movement leadership helped to inaugurate a distinct Africana tradition of critical theory.
With chapters on W.E.B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James,
Negritude (Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor), Frantz Fanon and
Amilcar Cabral, Africana Critical Theory endeavors to accessibly
offer contemporary critical theorists an intellectual archaeology of
the Africana tradition of critical theory and a much-needed
dialectical deconstruction and reconstruction of black radical
politics. These six seminal figures' collective thought and texts
clearly cuts across several disciplines and, therefore, closes the
chasm between Africana Studies and critical theory, constantly
demanding that intellectuals not simply think deep thoughts, develop
new theories, and theoretically support radical politics, but be and
constantly become political activists, social organizers and cultural
workers - that is, folk the Italian critical theorist Antonio Gramsci
referred to as 'organic intellectuals.' In this sense, then, the
series of studies gathered in Africana
Critical Theory contribute
not only to African Studies, African American Studies, Caribbean
Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, and Postcolonial Studies,
but also to contemporary critical theoretical discourse across an
amazingly wide-range of 'traditional' disciplines, and radical
political activism outside of (and, in many instances, absolutely
against) Europe's ivory towers and the absurdities of the American
academy.
