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BOOK ORGASM! Africana Critical Theory: Reconstructing the Black Radical Tradition, from W.E.B. Du Bois and C.L.R. James to Frantz Fanon by Reiland Rabaka Last night, as I read through the preface of Africana Critical Theory or the “Prelude to a Conceptual Kiss,” I was strutting back and forth in my house, snapping uncontrollably, and exclaiming in patois (sounding too much like my mother). Two nights ago, I spent the whole night reading, back to back, critiques of “Privilege Politics.” Or Critiques of the critiques. Some of them have been enlightening and others difficult, and at times bordering on infuriating. The articles were graciously compiled by a new comrade who I’ll be traveling down with to APOCalypse in NOLA. The readings included I’m done with privilege politics, Anxious Attachments: Scattered Thoughts on “People of Color,” Class Disavowal, and the Limits of “Racism,” Privilege Politics is Reformism, Be Careful With Each Other, So We Can Be Dangerous Together, and another response to Privilege Politics is Reformism. (Also see, Who Is Oakland: Anti-Oppression Activism, the Politics of Safety, and State Co-optation.) ”Privilege Politics is Reformism” was written by a comrade I organize with in NYC. His perspectives on working within the PoC Working Group of Occupy Wall Street and on “privilege theory” in general has been something I’ve been meaning to respond to. Regarding my response to the (critiques of the) critiques of “Privilege Politics,” especially as it relates to my experience as A person of color, or to be more specific, a queer & black & immigrant & neurovariant & sexual violence survivor & NON college educated & unemployed & middle class & mother & woman, who expended countless amounts of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual energy in OWS, with so much of that time spent being subjugated by oppressive people with more privilege (OOPS!) than me walking across my back on thier way to a movement that was not mine, and a future society that had little if any space for me…. well, I’ll be slow to speak. Dare I say it, these oppressive people were often times white/American (nationalist)/heterosexual/college educated/neurotypical/middle class or upper middle class/men AND their apologists AND enablers. Two things come to mind: emotional (in)justice and (un)accountability… In the mean time, I’m delighted to delve into Africana Critical Theory, which I stumbled on JUST IN TIME! With chapter titles such as: -(Re)Introducing the Africana Tradition of Critical Theory: Posing Problems and Searching for Solutions -W. E. B. Du Bois: The Soul of a Pan-African Marxist Male-Feminist -Aimé Césaire and Léopold Senghor: Revolutionary Negritude and Radical New Negroes -Frantz Fanon: Revolutionizing the Wretched of the Earth, Radicalizing the Discourse on Decolonization -Amilcar Cabral: Using the Weapon of Theory to Return to the Source(s) of Revolutionary Decolonization and Revolutionary Re-Africanization *SNAPS* *SNAPS* *SNAPS* *SNAPS* *SNAPS* *SNAPS* *SNAPS*

BOOK ORGASM!

Africana Critical Theory: Reconstructing the Black Radical Tradition, from W.E.B. Du Bois and C.L.R. James to Frantz Fanon by Reiland Rabaka

Last night, as I read through the preface of Africana Critical Theory or the “Prelude to a Conceptual Kiss,” I was strutting back and forth in my house, snapping uncontrollably, and exclaiming in patois (sounding too much like my mother). Two nights ago, I spent the whole night reading, back to back, critiques of “Privilege Politics.” Or Critiques of the critiques. Some of them have been enlightening and others difficult, and at times bordering on infuriating. The articles were graciously compiled by a new comrade who I’ll be traveling down with to APOCalypse in NOLA. The readings included I’m done with privilege politics, Anxious Attachments: Scattered Thoughts on “People of Color,” Class Disavowal, and the Limits of “Racism,” Privilege Politics is Reformism, Be Careful With Each Other, So We Can Be Dangerous Together, and another response to Privilege Politics is Reformism. (Also see, Who Is Oakland: Anti-Oppression Activism, the Politics of Safety, and State Co-optation.) ”Privilege Politics is Reformism” was written by a comrade I organize with in NYC. His perspectives on working within the PoC Working Group of Occupy Wall Street and on “privilege theory” in general has been something I’ve been meaning to respond to.

Regarding my response to the (critiques of the) critiques of “Privilege Politics,” especially as it relates to my experience as A person of color, or to be more specific, a queer & black & immigrant & neurovariant & sexual violence survivor & NON college educated & unemployed & middle class & mother & woman, who expended countless amounts of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual energy in OWS, with so much of that time spent being subjugated by oppressive people with more privilege (OOPS!) than me walking across my back on thier way to a movement that was not mine, and a future society that had little if any space for me…. well, I’ll
be slow to speak. Dare I say it, these oppressive people were often times white/American (nationalist)/heterosexual/college educated/neurotypical/middle class or upper middle class/men AND their apologists AND enablers. Two things come to mind: emotional (in)justice and (un)accountability…

In the mean time, I’m delighted to delve into Africana Critical Theory, which I stumbled on JUST IN TIME! With chapter titles such as:

-(Re)Introducing the Africana Tradition of Critical Theory: Posing Problems and Searching for Solutions

-W. E. B. Du Bois: The Soul of a Pan-African Marxist Male-Feminist

-Aimé Césaire and Léopold Senghor: Revolutionary Negritude and Radical New Negroes

-Frantz Fanon: Revolutionizing the Wretched of the Earth, Radicalizing the Discourse on Decolonization

-Amilcar Cabral: Using the Weapon of Theory to Return to the Source(s) of Revolutionary Decolonization and Revolutionary Re-Africanization

*SNAPS* *SNAPS* *SNAPS* *SNAPS* *SNAPS* *SNAPS* *SNAPS*

  1. s-chiedza said: I need this book.
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