Africana Critical Theory - Reconstructing Black Radical Tradition, from W.E.B. Du Bois C.L.R.

Informationen zum Autor Reiland Rabaka is associate professor of Africana studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is also an affiliate professor of women and gender studies and a research fellow at the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America (CSERA). He is also the recipient of the Cheikh Anta Diop Distinguished Career Award. Klappentext Africana Critical Theory innovatively identifies and analyzes continental and diasporan African contributions to classical and contemporary critical theory through the works of W. E. B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and Amilcar Cabral. Zusammenfassung Africana Critical Theory innovatively identifies and analyzes continental and diasporan African contributions to classical and contemporary critical theory through the works of W. E. B. Du Bois! C.L.R. James! Aime Cesaire! Leopold Senghor! Frantz Fanon! and Amilcar Cabral. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 (Re) Introducing the Africana Traditon of Critical Theory: Posing Problems and Searching for Solutions 2 W. E. B. Du Bois: The Soul of a Pan-African Marxist Male-Feminist 3 C. L. R. James: Pan-African Marxism Beyond All Boundaries 4 Aimé Césaire and Léopold Senghor: Revolutionary Negritude and Radical New Negroes 5 Frantz Fanon: Revolutionizing the Wretched of the Earth, Radicalizing the Discourse of Decolonization 6 Amilcar Cabral: Using the Weapon of Theory to Return to the Source(s) of Revolutionary Decolonization and Revolutionary Re-Africanization 7 Africana Critical Theory: Overcoming the Aversion to New Theory and New Praxis in Africana Studies and Critical Social Theory

Product details

• Authors: Reiland Rabaka, Rabaka Reiland
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2009
• EAN: 9780739128855
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2885-5
• No. of pages: 431
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & cultural anthropology, Social discrimination & inequality, Literature: history & criticism, Social discrimination & equal treatment, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black