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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811387603321

Autore

Rabaka Reiland <1972->

Titolo

Africana critical theory [[electronic resource] ] : reconstructing the black radical tradition, from W.E.B. Du Bois and C.L.R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral / / Reiland Rabaka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, c2009

ISBN

1-282-49413-9

9786612494130

0-7391-3309-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (453 p.)

Disciplina

305.896/073

Soggetti

African Americans - Study and teaching

Critical theory

African American philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

(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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.