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Reiland Rabaka is associate professor of Africana studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is also affiliate professor of women and gender studies and a research fellow at the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America (CSERA). He is also the recipient of the Cheikh Anta Diop Distinguished Career Award.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Du Bois and Africana Critical Theory
Chapter 2 Du Bois's Concepts of Race, Critiques of Racism, and Contributions to Critical White Studies and Critical Race Theory
Chapter 3 Du Bois and the Politics and Problematics of Postcolonialism
Chapter 4 Du Bois's Critique of Capitalism, Critical Marxism, and Discourse on Democratic Socialism
Chapter 5 Du Bois and "The Damnation of Women": Critical Social Theory and the Souls of Black Female Folk
Chapter 6 Conclusion: Du Bois, the Problems of the 21st Century, and the Reconstruction of Critical Social Theory
Reiland Rabaka is a young, engaged intellectual to be contended with, one with a distinctive cast of mind. His passionate and well-read take on Du Bois will provoke heated debates and fruitful reconsiderations of this towering figure; his conception of 'Africana Critical Theory' will provoke much needed reconsiderations of theoretical tools forged and put to work to produce understandings and emancipatory reconstructions of the life-worlds and life-world situations of peoples African and of African descent. He must be read, and read closely and carefully.
— Lucius Outlaw, author of Critical Social Theory in the Interests of Black Folk
Nuanced and comprehensive, Reiland Rabaka's work on W. E. B. Du Bois and Africana Critical Theory is unique. Its offering of complex and comprehensive analyses, in clear and engaging prose, provides a valuable resource for academic and activist intellectuals.
— Joy James, editor, The New Abolitionists
For any serious student of W. E. B. Du Bois or Africana critical theory, this book should be mandatory reading.... For those already familiar with Du Bois's works, Rabaka rewards his readers with original ideas that merit thoughtful consideration whether one accepts them or not.... I expect that we will be reading much more about Du Bois's contributions to critical race theory and postcolonialism, and this book will be considered a leading reference.
— Benjamin Sevitch; The Journal of African American History
This remarkable book is nothing short of a critique of critical theory itself. The scale of Dr. Rabaka's erudition and insights into the very question of what it means to theorize from the intellectual resources offered by the African Diaspora, without a reactionary exclusion of the contributions from other communities of thought, makes this provocative and historically informed work the long-awaited text that launches the transition from promise to fact.
— Lewis R. Gordon, Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies, University of Connecticut
• Winner, W.E.B. Du Bois-Anna Julia Cooper Award 2008; Cheikh Anta Diop Book Award, 2008