Africana Critical Theory of Contemporary Society: The Role of Radical Politics, Social Theory, and Africana Philosophy

Rabaka, Reiland

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“…Turner’s on and off campus activist experiences reveal the intellectual and academic merit of activism. Intellectuals do “not simply think deep thoughts, develop new theories, and theoretically support radical politics, but be and constantly become political activists, social organizers, and cultural workers” (Rabaka, 2009, p. xii). Students and scholars, alike, have a responsibility to use their respective expertise to create positive change for African people and their descendants, and by extension, the world.…”

Section: Black Student Activism Student Engagement and High Impact mentioning

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Africana Studies, 21st Century Black Student Activism, and High Impact Educational Practices: A Biographical Sketch of David C. Turner, III

Claybrook¹

2021

Journal of Black Studies

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This article examines the relationship between academia and activism. It explores the undergraduate experience of veteran 21st century Black student activist, David C. Turner, III, revealing the foundations of his academic and activist career in higher education. Framed in the context of student engagement and high impact educational practices, this paper argues that 21st century Black student activists are motivated by a belief in a society and world free from overt, insidious, and institutional racism. Furthermore, it argues that activism offers academically relevant learning opportunities. The article draws upon informal conversations and interactions, formal interviews, and Turner’s published and unpublished writings. It chronicles Turner’s undergraduate experiences at CSU, Dominguez Hills majoring in Africana Studies, president of the Organization of Africana Studies, and research and conference opportunities revealing the foundations of his pursuit of cultural grounding, academic excellence, and social responsibility. Furthermore, it highlights the links between intellectual and academic work, with activism and organizing.

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Section: Black Student Activism Student Engagement and High Impact mentioning

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Africana Studies, 21st Century Black Student Activism, and High Impact Educational Practices: A Biographical Sketch of David C. Turner, III

Claybrook¹

2021

Journal of Black Studies

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“…14 he writes: 'there are a multiplicity of deficiencies that arise when employing Marxist methods to engage James, because he was not merely a Marxist, but also a revolutionary Pan-Africanist.' 15 Rabaka's thesis on The Black Jacobins is that it 'exploded Marxian concepts and categories by emphasising the role of the enslaved (the racially oppressed and economically exploited) in the process of revolutionary social transformation'. 16 Yet his argument collapses on a single historical fact: the leading organisers and intellectuals of the Pan-Africanist movement (Padmore, DuBois and James) were drawn to the interwar communist movement and Marxist theory precisely because of Marx's scathing critique of British colonialism in Ireland and India, in which Marx put consistently strong stress on its racial character.…”

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“…15 Rabaka's thesis on The Black Jacobins is that it 'exploded Marxian concepts and categories by emphasising the role of the enslaved (the racially oppressed and economically exploited) in the process of revolutionary social transformation'. 16 Yet his argument collapses on a single historical fact: the leading organisers and intellectuals of the Pan-Africanist movement (Padmore, DuBois and James) were drawn to the interwar communist movement and Marxist theory precisely because of Marx's scathing critique of British colonialism in Ireland and India, in which Marx put consistently strong stress on its racial character. In the case of DuBois, as soon as he began closely reading Marx, he became impressed by the perspicacity of Marx's analysis of white racial oppression in the United States, of which Marx had written: 'Labor cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.'…”

Section: The Second Revivalmentioning

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The Americanisation of C. L. R. James

Scott¹

2018

Race & Class

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The writings of the Black Marxist-Leninist thinker and activist C. L. R. James are now widely known and studied, although most of his long career was passed in obscurity. His two most influential books, The Black Jacobins (1938) and Beyond a Boundary (1963) now have a global impact. But his work did not begin to receive wide recognition until the 1980s and 1990s. And it is the nature of that recognition, and the ends to which his work has been put in the US academy, that this article explores. In critiquing a wide range of influential theoretical approaches to James’ work, the author relates current interpretations of it to the wider political and cultural climate engendered by neoliberalism, with its emphasis on the individual not as a historical agent, but as primarily concerned with self-fashioning and cultural identity. In the process, the article demonstrates how the political activist thrust of James’ analyses and work, and its concerns with imperialism and resistance, has been set aside as part of the corporate world’s continuing appropriation of the ‘alternative and adversarial culture of the 1960s’.

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“…The work of Rabaka ( 20022006200720092010 ) provides an important means for grouping aspects of Africana experiences while simultaneously acknowledging the various strands that comprise Africana people and culture. Africana critical theory is “ theory critical of domination and discrimination in classical and contemporary, continental and diasporan African life worlds and life struggle ” ( italics by Rabaka 2010 :14).…”

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Discourse on African American/Black Identity: engaging the expanded nigrescence theory with a diasporic consciousness

Walt

2013

SpringerPlus

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This manuscript theoretically explores the application of a stretched expanded nigrescence theory (NT-E) by making notions of consciousness explicit, thereby building on the research involving first generation U.S.-born Africans (FGAs). In taking this approach, a theoretical framework of a diasporic consciousness emerged an alternative for exploring the identity development of Africana people. To facilitate this process, a shift from conceiving identity along the lines of race and ethnicity was begun towards a conception that is solely culturally based on eight identified factors.

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Africana Critical Theory of Contemporary Society: The Role of Radical Politics, Social Theory, and Africana Philosophy

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Africana Studies, 21st Century Black Student Activism, and High Impact Educational Practices: A Biographical Sketch of David C. Turner, III

Africana Studies, 21st Century Black Student Activism, and High Impact Educational Practices: A Biographical Sketch of David C. Turner, III

The Americanisation of C. L. R. James

Discourse on African American/Black Identity: engaging the expanded nigrescence theory with a diasporic consciousness

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