Concepts of Cabralism

Amilcar Cabral and Africana Critical Theory

Reiland Rabaka

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9780739192115
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Sciences sociales
• Subtopic: Philosophie politique

By examining Amilcar Cabral's theories and praxes, as well as several of the antecedents and major influences on the evolution of his radical politics and critical social theory, Concepts of Cabralism:Amilcar Cabral and Africana Critical Theory simultaneously reintroduces, chronicles, and analyzes several of the core characteristics of the Africana tradition of critical theory. Reiland Rabaka's primary preoccupation is with Cabral's theoretical and political legacies—that is to say, with the ways in which he constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed theory and the aims, objectives, and concrete outcomes of his theoretical applications and discursive practices. The book begins with the Negritude Movement, and specifically the work of Léopold Senghor, Aimé Césaire, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Next, it shifts the focus to Frantz Fanon's discourse on radical disalienation and revolutionary decolonization. Finally, it offers an extended engagement of Cabral's critical theory and contributions to the Africana tradition of critical theory. Ultimately, Concepts of Cabralism chronicles and critiques, revisits and revises the black radical tradition with an eye toward the ways in which classical black radicalism informs, or should inform, not only contemporary black radicalism, African nationalism, and Pan-Africanism, but also contemporary efforts to create a new anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-capitalist, anti-colonialist, and anti-imperialist critical theory of contemporary society—what has come to be called "Africana critical theory."

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Contours of Cabralism
• Return to the Source: The Philosophical Foundations of Cabral’s Critical Theory
• The Negritude Movement: Cesaire, Senghor, and Critical Social Theory
• Fanonism: Fanon’s Dialectic of Radical Disalienation and Revolutionary Decolonization
• The Weapon of Theory: Cabral’s Critical Theory and Revolutionary Praxis
• Cabral’s Critical Theory of Colonialism, Neocolonialism, and Imperialism
• Cabral’s Critical Theory of Marxism, Nationalism, and Humanism
• Cabral’s Critical Theory of History, Culture, and National Liberation
• The Africana Tradition of Critical Theory: Cabral and the Decolonization and Re-Africanization of Radical Politics, Critical Social Theory, and Revolutionary Praxis
• Africana Critical Theory in the Aftermath of Amilcar Cabral and Cabralism’s Contributions
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author