For Rabaka (Africana studies, U. of Colorado at Boulder), W.E.B. Du Bois's "anti-imperial ideals and actions, his increasing commitment(s) to gender justice, his radical political vision, and
his theory of social change offer a much needed Africana alternative to and through the mazes of postmodernism, postcolonialism, postfeminism, and post-Marxism, among other contemporary
conceptual distractions and disruptions." Having immersed himself in Du Bois's work and political activities beyond the early writings and The Souls of Black Folk, Rabaka here performs an
archaeology of Du Bois's career and writings in order to extract their import to contemporary radical politics and the reconstruction of critical social theory. Annotation 穢2008 Book News,
Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
