W. E. B. Du Bois provides an important, though often overlooked, Africana history, culture, and philosophy – informed framework for (a) redeveloping Africana studies and relating it to the crises and conundrums of the 21st century; (b) reconstructing critical social theory, making it more multicultural, transethnic, transgender, and non-Western European–philosophy focused; and (c) reinventing what it means to be an insurgent intellectualactivist (one who relates critical theory to radical political praxis). Du Bois has been hailed as an historian, sociologist, Marxist, and political activist but never an early interdisciplinary social theorist with concrete political commitments to not simply Black liberation and racial justice but to women's liberation, the poor masses and working classes, and colonized people of color worldwide. He has long been praised and criticized by scholars who have interpreted and reinterpreted his work, often overlooking its deep critical theoretical dimensions. In this article, Du Bois's multifarious and ever-evolving social theory is situated at the center and examined for its significance to the discourse and development of Africana studies, contemporary radical political theory, and revolutionary social movements.
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