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Africana Critical Theory
Reconstructing The Black Radical Tradition, From W. E. B. Du Bois and C. L. R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral
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2009
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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.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2885-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3309-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
432
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Preface andAcknowledgements: Prelude to a Conceptual Kiss No access
Chapter 01. (Re)Introducing the Africana Tradition of Critical Theory: Posing Problems and Searching for Solutions No access Pages 1 - 36
Chapter 02. W. E. B. Du Bois: The Soul of a Pan-African Marxist Male-Feminist No access Pages 37 - 88
Chapter 03. C. L. R. James: Pan-African Marxism Beyond All Boundaries No access Pages 89 - 110
Chapter 04. Aimé Césaire and Léopold Senghor: Revolutionary Negritude and Radical New Negroes No access Pages 111 - 164
Chapter 05. Frantz Fanon: Revolutionizing the Wretched of the Earth, Radicalizing the Discourse on Decolonization No access Pages 165 - 226
Chapter 06. Amilcar Cabral: Using the Weapon of Theory to Return to the Source(s) of Revolutionary Decolonization and Revolutionary Re-Africanization No access Pages 227 - 284
Chapter 07. Africana Critical Theory: Overcoming the Aversion to New Theory and New Praxis in Africana Studies and Critical Social Theory No access Pages 285 - 306
