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 / Reiland Rabaka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rabaka, Reiland, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Study and teaching.

African Americans.

Critical theory.

African American philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (453 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

(Re)introducing the Africana tradition of critical theory: posing problems and searching for solutions

W.E.B. Du Bois: the soul of a pan-African Marxist male-feminist

C.L.R. James: pan-African Marxism beyond all boundaries

Aimé Césaire and Léopold Senghor: revolutionary negritude and radical new negroes

Frantz Fanon: revolutionizing the wretched of the earth, radicalizing the discourse on decolonization

Amilcar Cabral: using the weapon of theory to return to the source(s) of revolutionary decolonization and revolutionary re-Africanization

Africana critical theory: overcoming the aversion to new theory and new praxis in Africana studies and critical social theory.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-414) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

1-282-49413-9

9786612494130

0-7391-3309-8

OCLC:

311277952