W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century ─ An Essay on Africana Critical Theory

For Rabaka (Africana studies, U. of Colorado at Boulder), W.E.B. Du Bois's "anti-imperial ideals and actions, his increasing commitment(s) to gender justice, his radical political vision, and his theory of social change offer a much needed Africana alternative to and through the mazes of postmodernism, postcolonialism, postfeminism, and post-Marxism, among other contemporary conceptual distractions and disruptions." Having immersed himself in Du Bois's work and political activities beyond the early writings and The Souls of Black Folk, Rabaka here performs an archaeology of Du Bois's career and writings in order to extract their import to contemporary radical politics and the reconstruction of critical social theory. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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).