"The pioneering work of America's greatest black nineteenth-century thinker explained"--
This book critically examines the music and politics that emerged from the Civil Rights Movement as incredibly important sites and sources... Læs mere
The Negritude Movement provides readers with not only an intellectual history of the Negritude Movement but also its prehistory (W.E.B. Du Bois, the New Negro Movement, and the Harlem Renaissance) and its posthistory (Frantz Fanon and the evolution of Fanonism).
By examining Amilcar Cabral’s theories and praxes, Reiland Rabaka reintroduces and analyzes several of the core characteristics of the... Læs mere
Connecting classic rhythm & blues and rock & roll to the Civil Rights Movement, and classic soul and... Læs mere
What did rap music and hip hop culture inherit from the spirituals, classic blues, ragtime, classic jazz, and bebop? What did rap music and hip hop culture inherit from the Black Women's Club Movement, New Negro Movement, Harlem Renaissance, Hipster Movement, and Black Muslim ...
Hip Hop's Inheritance arguably offers the first book-length treatment of what hip hop culture has, literally,... Læs mere
Forms of Fanonism is the first study to consciously identify and intensely analyze Fanon's contributions to the deconstruction and reconstruction of Africana Studies, radical politics, and critical social theory.
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.
With chapters that undertake ideological critiques of education, religion, the politics of reparations, and... Læs mere
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century utilizes Du Bois's thought and texts to develop an Africana Studies-informed critical theory of contemporary society.