Du Bois's Dialectics

Black Radical Politics and the Reconstruction of Critical Social Theory

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Du Bois's Dialectics

Black Radical Politics and the Reconstruction of Critical Social Theory

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Du Bois's Dialectics is doubly distinguished from other books on Du Bois because it is the first extended exploration of Du Bois's contributions to new critical theory and the first book-length treatment of his contributions to contemporary black radical politics and the developing discipline of Africana Studies. 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's transition from a bourgeois black liberal to a black radical and revolutionary democratic socialist. This book is primarily directed at scholars, advanced undergraduate and graduate students working in and associated with Africana Studies, American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Cultural Studies.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface and Acknowedgments: Du Bois's Dialectics and the Africana Tradition of Critical Theory
Chapter 2 1. Introduction: Du Bois, the Renewal of Black Radical Politics, and the Reconstruction of Critical Social Theory
Chapter 3 2. Africana Critical Pedagogy: Du Bois's Philosophy of Education, Sociology of Education, Anthropology of Education, and Critical Educational Theory
Chapter 4 3. The Du Bois-Washington Debate: Social Leadership, Intellectual Legacy, and the Lingering Problematics of African American Politics
Chapter 5 4. The Prophet of Problems: Du Bois's Philosophy of Religion, Sociology of Religion, Critique of the Black (and White) Church, and Critical Theory of Liberation Theology
Chapter 6 5. Critical Reparations Theory: Du Bois's Revolutionary Pan-Africanism and Revolutionary Humanism
Chapter 7 6. Conclusion: The Souls of Black Radical Folk: Du Bois, Africana Studies, and the Crises of Contemporary Critical Social Theory

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Published Jul 15 2009
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 354
ISBN 9780739119587
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 231 x 155 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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