Title: 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 /
Authors: Rabaka, Reiland, 1972-
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Year: 2009
Subjects: African Americans Study and teaching; Critical theory; African American philosophy.
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.