Du Bois's Dialectics
Black Radical Politics and the Reconstruction of Critical Social Theory- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2009
Summary
Du Bois's Dialectics is doubly distinguished from other books on Du Bois because it is the first extended exploration of Du Bois's contributions to new critical theory and the first book-length treatment of his contributions to contemporary black radical politics and the developing discipline of Africana Studies. With chapters that undertake ideological critiques of education, religion, the politics of reparations, and the problematics of black radical politics in contemporary culture and society, Du Bois's Dialectics employs Du Bois as its critical theoretical point of departure and demonstrates his (and Africana Studies') contributions to, as well as contemporary critical theory's connections to, critical pedagogy, sociology of religion, and reparations theory. Rabaka offers the first critical theoretical treatment of the W. E. B. Du Bois_Booker T. Washington debate, which lucidly highlights Du Bois's transition from a bourgeois black liberal to a black radical and revolutionary democratic socialist. This book is primarily directed at scholars, advanced undergraduate and graduate students working in and associated with Africana Studies, American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Cultural Studies.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2009
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-1957-0
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7391-3099-5
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 324
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Preface and Acknowledgments No access
- Ch01. Introduction: Du Bois, theRenewal of Black Radical Politics,and the Reconstruction of CriticalSocial Theory No access Pages 1 - 42
- Ch02. Africana Critical Pedagogy: Du Bois’sPhilosophy of Education, Sociology ofEducation, Anthropology of Education,and Critical Educational Theory1 No access Pages 43 - 80
- Ch03. The Du Bois–Washington Debate:Social Leadership, Intellectual Legacy,and the Lingering Problematicsof African American Politics No access Pages 81 - 118
- Ch04. The Prophet of Problems: Du Bois’sPhilosophy of Religion, Sociologyof Religion, Critique of the Black(and White) Church, and CriticalTheory of Liberation Theology1 No access Pages 119 - 158
- Ch05. Critical Reparations Theory: Du Bois’sRevolutionary Pan-Africanism andRevolutionary Humanism No access Pages 159 - 182
- Ch06. Conclusion: The Souls of BlackRadical Folk: Du Bois, AfricanaStudies, and the Crises ofContemporary Critical Social Theory No access Pages 183 - 206
- Bibliography No access Pages 207 - 310
- Index No access Pages 311 - 322
- About the Author No access Pages 323 - 324





