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Rabaka, Reiland

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  • 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 19 books and more than 100 scholarly articles, book chapters, and essays, including Africana Critical Theory (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), 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), and The Funk Movement Music, Culture, and Politics (Routledge, 2025).

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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

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  • ETHN 3212 - Introduction to Hip Hop Studies
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Summer 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2024
    Examines critical questions posed by hip hop culture. Accentuated in this course are hip hop's contributions to the political-economic, philosophical, and sociological study of race, racism, sexism and sexuality. Examines the ways in which hip hop, as a new social phenomenon, cultural force and aesthetic form, have influenced contemporary American and global culture. Recommended prerequisite: ETHN 1022 or ETHN 2001.
  • ETHN 4102 - Special Topics in Africana Studies
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2021
    Variable topic that allows intensive coverage of a subject, theme, or issue in African American studies. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours on different topics. Same as ETHN 5102.
  • ETHN 4552 - The Harlem Renaissance: Fr Black Wmn's Club Mvmnt to Hip Hop
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2020
    Offers an interdisciplinary and intersectional overview of the origins and evolution of the Harlem Renaissance. Explores classic texts, music and works of art emerging from the Harlem Renaissance and related events and movements of its epoch: the Black Women's Club Movement, New Negro Movement, Pan-African Movement, Lost Generation, Jazz Age, World War I and World War II. Same as HUMN 4552 and ETHN 5552.
  • ETHN 5102 - Special Topics in Africana Studies
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019
    Variable topic that allows intensive coverage of a subject, theme, or issue in African American studies. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours on different topics. Same as ETHN 4102.
  • ETHN 6301 - Decolonial/Postcolonial Theory
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018
    Offers an overview of the origins and evolution of Decolonial/Postcolonial Theory. Critically compares and contrasts decolonial discourse with postcolonial theory. Exposes students to the ways in which decolonial and postcolonial theory conceptually interconnect via Cultural Studies, Critical Race Studies and Ethnic Studies-derived discourses such as racial colonialism, the critique of European imperialism, transnationalism feminism, Indigeneity/Indigenous Studies, Diaspora Studies and Subaltern Studies.
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