Office Location: Ketchum 257
Pronouns: he / him / his
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Education
Ph.D., Temple University
M.A., Temple University听
B.F.A., University of the Arts
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for African American Studies (CAAS), College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS), University of Houston
Research Interests
African and African American history, African and African American politics, African and African American social movements, Black feminist theory, Black sexuality studies, Black popular culture, Black popular music, critical race theory, and decolonial theory
Reiland Rabaka is听Professor of African, African American, and Caribbean Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies and听the Founder and Director of the Center for African & African American Studies at the 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录. He is also a Research Fellow in the College of Human Sciences at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Rabaka听has published 19 books and more than 100 scholarly articles, book chapters, and essays. His books include听Africana Critical Theory;听Against Epistemic Apartheid: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Disciplinary Decadence of Sociology;听Forms of Fanonism: Frantz Fanon鈥檚 Critical Theory and the Dialectics of Decolonization;听Concepts of Cabralism: Amilcar Cabral and the Africana Tradition of Critical Theory;听The Negritude Movement;听The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism; and听Du Bois: A Critical Introduction.听A wing of his work has made significant contributions to African American musicology, and his books in this area include听Civil Rights Music: The Soundtracks of the Civil Rights Movement;听Black Power Music!: Protest Songs, Message Music, and the Black Power Movement;听Black Women鈥檚 Liberation Movement Music: Soul Sisters, Black Feminist Funksters, and Afro-Disco Divas; The Funk Movement: Music, Culture, and Politics; Hip Hop鈥檚 Inheritance;听Hip Hop鈥檚 Amnesia; and听The Hip Hop Movement.听Academic journals Rabaka has published听in include听Journal of Black Studies,听Journal of African American Studies, International听Journal of Africana Studies,听Africana Studies Annual Review,听Africalogical Perspectives,听Ethnic Studies Review,听Journal of Classical Sociology,听History of Humanities,听The Philosopher, Raisons politiques: Revue de th茅orie politique, and Revista da Associa莽茫o Brasileira de Pesquisadores/as Negros/as (ABPN), among others. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Science Foundation, the听National Museum of African American History & Culture, the National Museum of American History, the Smithsonian Institution,听the听Eugene M. Kayden Book Award, the听Cheikh Anta Diop Book Award, and the National Council for Black Studies鈥�听Distinguished Career Award.听He has conducted archival research and lectured extensively both nationally and internationally, and he has been the recipient of several community service citations, distinguished teaching awards, and research fellowships. His cultural criticism, social commentary, and political analysis has been featured in print, radio, television, and online media venues such as NPR, PBS, BBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, MTV, BET, VH1,听The New York Times, The Associated Press, and The Guardian, among others. 听He is also a poet and musician.听
Selected Publications
Books
Reiland Rabaka, The Funk Movement: Music, Culture, and Politics (London: Routledge, 2025).
Reiland Rabaka, Black Women鈥檚 Liberation Movement Music: Soul Sisters, Black Feminist Funksters, and Afro-Disco Divas (London: Routledge, 2023).
Reiland Rabaka,听Black Power Music!: Protest Songs, Message Music, and the Black Power Movement听(London: Routledge, 2022).
Reiland Rabaka, Du Bois: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge: Polity, 2021).
Reiland Rabaka, ed., The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism (London: Routledge, 2020).
Reiland Rabaka, ed., W.E.B. Du Bois: A Critical Reader (London: Routledge, 2017).
Reiland Rabaka,听Civil Rights Music: The Soundtracks of the Civil Rights Movement (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).
Reiland Rabaka,听The Negritude Movement: W.E.B. Du Bois, Leon Damas, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and the Evolution of an Insurgent Idea (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).
Reiland Rabaka, Concepts of Cabralism: Amilcar Cabral and Africana Critical Theory听(Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).
Reiland Rabaka, The Hip Hop Movement: From R&B and the Civil Rights Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Generation (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013).
Reiland Rabaka, Hip Hop鈥檚 Amnesia: From Blues and the Black Women鈥檚 Club Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Movement (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012).
Reiland Rabaka,听Hip Hop鈥檚 Inheritance: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011).
Arturo Aldama, Elisa Facio, Daryl Maeda, and Reiland Rabaka, eds. Enduring Legacies: Ethnic Histories and Cultures of Colorado (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2011).
Reiland Rabaka, ed., W.E.B. Du Bois: The International Library of Essays in Classical Sociology (London: Ashgate, 2010).
Reiland Rabaka, Against Epistemic Apartheid: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Disciplinary Decadence of Sociology (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010).
Reiland Rabaka, Forms of Fanonism: Frantz Fanon鈥檚 Critical Theory and the Dialectics of Decolonization (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010).
Reiland Rabaka, Africana Critical Theory: Reconstructing the Black Radical Tradition, from W.E.B. Du Bois and C.L.R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009).
Reiland Rabaka, Du Bois鈥檚 Dialectics: Black Radical Politics and the Reconstruction of Critical Social Theory (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008).
Reiland Rabaka, W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century: An Essay on Africana Critical Theory (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
