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"Black Power Music! is a study about music and socio-political movements, aesthetics and politics, as well as the ways in which African Americans' unique history, culture, and struggles have consistently led them to create musics that have served as the soundtracks or 'mouthpieces' for their socio-political aspirations and frustrations, their socio-political organizations and movements. Drawing on thinking from a variety of disciplines whose discourses traditionally are kept mostly apart, the author finds the consilience that binds these disciplines together vis-à-vis black power music. The book will be essential reading for all students engaged in black popular music studies, African American studies, popular culture studies, ethnic studies as well as sociology, ethnomusicology and political science"--

Introduction : Du Bois's Lifework -- The Philadelphia Negro : Early Work and the Inauguration of American Sociology -- The Souls of Black Folk : Critique of Racism and Contributions to Critical Race Studies -- "The Souls of White Folk" : Critique of White Supremacy and Contributions to Critical White Studies -- "The Damnation of Women" : Critique of Patriarchy, Contributions to Black Feminism, and Early Intersectionality -- Black Reconstruction : Critique of Capitalism, Contributions to Black Marxism, and Discourse on Democratic Socialism -- Conclusion : Du Bois's Legacy.

The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism provides an international, intersectional, and interdisciplinary overview of, and approach to, Pan-Africanism, making an invaluable contribution to the ongoing evolution of Pan-Africanism and demonstrating its continued significance in the 21st century. The handbook features expert introductions to, and critical explorations of, the most important historic and current subjects, theories, and controversies of Pan-Africanism and the evolution of black internationalism. Pan-Africanism is explored and critically engaged from different disciplinary points of view, emphasizing the multiplicity of perspectives and foregrounding an intersectional approach. The contributors provide erudite discussions of black internationalism, black feminism, African feminism, and queer Pan-Africanism alongside surveys of black nationalism, black consciousness, and Caribbean Pan-Africanism. Chapters on neo-colonialism, decolonization, and Africanization give way to chapters on African social movements, the African Union, and the African Renaissance. Pan-African aesthetics are probed via literature and music, illustrating the black internationalist impulse in myriad continental and diasporan artists' work. Including 36 chapters by acclaimed established and emerging scholars, the handbook is organized into seven parts, each centered around a comprehensive theme: Intellectual origins, historical evolution, and radical politics of Pan-Africanism Pan-Africanist theories Pan-Africanism in the African diaspora Pan-Africanism in Africa Literary Pan-Africanism Musical Pan-Africanism The contemporary and continued relevance of Pan-Africanism in the 21st century The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism is an indispensable source for scholars and students with research interests in continental and diasporan African history, sociology, politics, economics, and aesthetics. It will also be a very valuable resource for those working in interdisciplinary fields, such as African studies, African American studies, Caribbean studies, decolonial studies, postcolonial studies, women and gender studies, and queer studies.

By examining Amilcar Cabral's theories and praxes, Reiland Rabaka reintroduces and analyzes several of the core characteristics of the Africana critical theory. Ultimately, this book promotes the ways in which classical black radicalism should inform contemporary black radicalism, and contemporary Africana critical theory.

Against Epistemic Apartheid offers an archive-informed and accessible introduction to Du Bois's major contributions to sociology. In this intellectual history-making volume multiple award-winning W.E.B. Du Bois scholar Reiland Rabaka offers the first book-length treatment of Du Bois's seminal sociological discourse: from Du Bois as inventor of the sociology of race, to Du Bois as the first sociologist of American religion; from Du Bois as a pioneer of urban and rural sociology, to Du Bois as innovator of the sociology of gender and inaugurator of intersectional sociology; and, finally, from Du

With chapters that undertake ideological critiques of education, religion, the politics of reparations, and the problematics of black radical politics in contemporary culture and society, Du Bois's Dialectics employs Du Bois as its critical theoretical point of departure and demonstrates his (and Africana Studies') contributions to, as well as contemporary critical theory's connections to, critical pedagogy, sociology of religion, and reparations theory. Rabaka offers the first critical theoretical treatment of the W. E. B. Du Bois-Booker T. Washington debate, which lucidly highlights Du Bois'

Introduction: Du Bois and Africana critical theory -- Du Bois's concepts of race, critiques of racism, and contributions to critical white studies and critical race theory -- Du Bois and the politics and problematics of postcolonialism -- Du Bois's critique of capitalism, critical Marxism, and discourse on democratic socialism -- Du Bois and "The damnation of women" : critical social theory and the souls of Black female folk -- Conclusion: Du Bois, the problems of the 21st century, and the reconstruction of critical social theory

In the most general sense, the African Renaissance entails Africans combatting the racialization, colonization, and neo-colonization of Africa and committing to the decolonization, re-Africanization, and liberation of Africa. When Amilcar Cabral and Frantz Fanon's radical theory and revolutionary praxis (i.e., Cabralism and Fanonism, respectively) are placed into critical dialog a groundbreaking dialectic of revolutionary decolonization and revolutionary re-Africanization emerges. This article argues that this dialectic is sorely needed to reanimate—perhaps even radicalize and, indeed, revolutionize—contemporary conceptions of the African Renaissance. To that end, first, this article will explore the conceptual connections between Cabral's theory of "return to the source" and Fanon's theory of "the wretched of the earth." Next, it will investigate Cabral's distinct discourse on revolutionary decolonization and its implications for the African Renaissance. Lastly, the discussion will examine the ways in which Fanon's theory of radical political education is key to understanding his and Cabral's conceptions of, and key contributions to, both revolutionary decolonization and revolutionary re-Africanization, as well as their reverberations within the discourse on the African Renaissance.

Bref exercice de critique de la sociologie, cet article démontre les contributions indéniables de W. E. B. Du Bois à l'histoire, au discours et au développement de la sociologie américaine en particulier, et au monde de la sociologie en général. Cette approche dialectique du discours sociologique de Du Bois permettra aux interprètes objectifs de son œuvre de constater que, par comparaison et contraste avec l'œuvre monumentale de Karl Marx, Max Weber et Émile Durkheim, ce qui était et reste véritablement distinctif de la sociologie de Du Bois est précisément sa préoccupation sans prétention pour des questions sociales, politiques et culturelles clairement et distinctement américaines, comme, par exemple : la race et le racisme anti-noir dans le contexte de l'esclavage, du lynchage, des codes noirs, des lois Jim Crow, de la ségrégation et d'autres formes d'oppression raciale aux États-Unis ; le capitalisme racial et la colonisation raciale des classes sociales aux États-Unis ; la colonisation raciale du genre et de la sexualité aux États-Unis ; la colonisation raciale de la religion aux États-Unis ; la colonisation raciale de l'éducation aux États-Unis ; et, enfin, la criminalisation raciale des Noirs, parmi d'autres personnes colonisées racialement et frappées par la pauvreté, aux États-Unis.