Black Power Music!: Protest Songs, Message Music, and the Black Power Movement

About Reiland Rabaka

Reiland Rabaka is Professor of African African American and Caribbean Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Founder and Director of the Center for African & African American Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is also a Research Fellow in the College of Human Sciences at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Rabaka has published 17 books and more than 85 scholarly articles book chapters and essays. His books include Civil Rights Music Hip Hops Inheritance Hip Hops Amnesia The Hip Hop Movement Africana Critical Theory Against Epistemic Apartheid: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Disciplinary Decadence of Sociology Forms of Fanonism: Frantz Fanons Critical Theory and the Dialectics of Decolonization Concepts of Cabralism: Amilcar Cabral and Africana Critical Theory The Negritude Movement The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism and Du Bois: A Critical Introduction. His cultural criticism social commentary and political analysis have been featured in print radio television and online media venues such as NPR PBS BBC CNN ABC NBC CBS MTV BET VH1 The Guardian and USA Today among others.