Reiland Rabaka is professor of African, African American, and Caribbean studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he also has affiliations with the Women & Gender Studies Program, Humanities Program, Center for Studies of Ethnicity & Race in America (CSERA), and School of Education. He is the author of twelve books, including Africana Critical Theory, Against Epistemic Apartheid, Forms of Fanonism, and The Negritude Movement.

• Introduction: Contours of CabralismPart I: Return to the Source: The Philosophical Foundations of Cabral’s Critical Theory Chapter 1: The Negritude Movement: Cesaire, Senghor, and Critical Social TheoryChapter 2: Fanonism: Fanon’s Dialectic of Radical Disalienation and Revolutionary DecolonizationPart II: The Weapon of Theory: Cabral’s Critical Theory and Revolutionary PraxisChapter 3: Cabral’s Critical Theory of Colonialism, Neocolonialism, and Imperialism Chapter 4: Cabral’s Critical Theory of Marxism, Nationalism, and Humanism Chapter 5: Cabral’s Critical Theory of History, Culture, and National Liberation Part III: The Africana Tradition of Critical Theory: Cabral and the Decolonization and Re-Africanization of Radical Politics, Critical Social Theory, and Revolutionary PraxisChapter 6: Africana Critical Theory in the Aftermath of Amilcar Cabral and Cabralism’s Contributions

Rabaka contributes to radical black politics and Africana critical social theory and exceeds expectations on both counts. Six chapters guide readers through a corpus that 'draws from a diverse array of often eclectic and enigmatic sources and, therefore, offers no closed system or absolute truths.'. . . .Rabaka's critical introduction outlines Cabral’s biography and the genealogy of his thought. Chapter 1 begins with a provocative claim: 'in many respects Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral represent the pillars and pinnacle of the Africana tradition of critical theory in the second half of the 20th century.' The author situates the dialectic task before black thinkers as 'challenging both whites’ demonization and Blacks’ romanticism' of Africa. Chapter 2 carefully outlines Fanon’s challenge to negritude. Fanon’s method for apprehending the totalizing effects of European colonialism becomes cartographic in Rabaka’s reading of Cabral’s engagement with colonialism, neocolonialism, imperialism, Marxism, and history. The book ends by articulating Cabral’s usefulness for Rabaka’s larger vision of Africana critical theory. An original contribution to Africana philosophy and studies, critical theory, and currently reemerging anticolonial paradigms throughout the academy. A must-have. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above.