Reiland Rabaka is the Founder and Director of the Center for African & African American Studies and Professor of African, African American, and Caribbean Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is also a Visiting Professor in the College of Human Sciences at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Rabaka has published 20 books and more than 100 scholarly articles, book chapters, and essays, including Africana Critical Theory (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009); Against Epistemic Apartheid: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Disciplinary Decadence of Sociology (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010); Forms of Fanonism: Frantz Fanon’s Critical Theory and the Dialectics of Decolonization (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010); Hip Hop’s Inheritance (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011); Hip Hop’s Amnesia (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012); The Hip Hop Movement (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013); Concepts of Cabralism: Amilcar Cabral and the Africana Tradition of Critical Theory Rowman & Littlefield, 2014); The Negritude Movement: W.E.B. Du Bois, Leon Damas, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and the Evolution of an Insurgent Idea (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015); The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism (Routledge, 2020); Du Bois: A Critical Introduction (Polity, 2021); Black Power Music!: Protest Songs, Message Music, and the Black Power Movement (Routledge, 2022); Black Women’s Liberation Movement Music: Soul Sisters, Black Feminist Funksters, and Afro-Disco Divas (Routledge, 2024); The Funk Movement: Music, Culture, and Politics (Routledge, 2025); and Black Feminist Funk: Funk Women and Black Musical Feminism (Routledge, 2026).
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African studies, African American studies, Caribbean studies, African history, African American history, Caribbean history, African politics, African American politics, Caribbean politics, African social movements, African American social movements, Caribbean social movements, critical race theory, Black feminist theory, Black sexuality studies, Black popular culture studies, Black popular music studies, decolonial theory
