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Rastafari - The Evolution of a People and Their Identity (Paperback)
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Rastafari - The Evolution of a People and Their Identity (Paperback)
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Illuminates how the Rastafari movement managed to evolve in the
face of severe biases Misunderstood, misappropriated, belittled:
though the Rastafari feature frequently in media and culture, they
have most often been misrepresented, their political and religious
significance minimized. But they have not been vanquished. Charles
Price's Rastafari: The Evolution of a People and Their Identity
reclaims the rich history of this relatively new world religion.
Charting its humble and rebellious roots in Jamaica's backcountry
in the late nineteenth century to the present day, Price explains
how Jamaicans' obsession with the Rastafari wavered from campaigns
of violence to appeasement and cooptation. Indeed, he argues that
the Rastafari as a political, religious, and cultural movement
survived the biases and violence they faced through their race
consciousness and uncanny ability to ride the waves of
anti-colonialism and Black Power. This social movement traveled
throughout the Caribbean, Africa, Central America, and the United
States, capturing the heart and imagination of much of the African
diaspora. Rastafari spans the movement's struggle for autonomy, its
multiple campaigns for repatriation to Africa, and its leading role
in the Black consciousness movements of the twentieth century. Not
satisfied with simply narrating the past, Rastafari also takes on
the challenges of gender equality and the commodification of
Rastafari culture in the twenty-first century without abandoning
its message of equality and empowering the downpressed. Rastafari
shows how this cultural and political context helped to shape the
development of a Black collective identity, demonstrating how
Rastafarians confronted society-wide ridicule and oppression and
emerged prouder and more united, steadfast in their conviction that
they were a chosen people.
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