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 »

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.

Prelude to a Conceptual Kiss: Preface and Acknowledgements ix

1 (Re)Introducing the Africana Tradition of Critical Theory: Posing Problems and Searching for Solutions 1

2 W. E. B. Du Bois: The Soul of a Pan-African Marxist Male-Feminist 37

3 C. L. R. James: Pan-African Marxism Beyond All Boundaries 89

4 Aimé Césaire and Léopold Senghor: Revolutionary Negritude and Radical New Negroes 111

5 Frantz Fanon: Revolutionizing the Wretched of the Earth, Radicalizing the Discourse on Decolonization 165

6 Amilcar Cabral: Using the Weapon of Theory to Return to the Source(s) of Revolutionary Decolonization and Revolutionary Re-Africanization 227

7 Africana Critical Theory: Overcoming the Aversion to New Theory and New Praxis in Africana Studies and Critical Social Theory 285

Bibliography 307

Index 415

About the Author 431