Rastafari : the evolution of a people and their identity / Charles Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, Charles, 1963- author.

Series:

NYU Press scholarship online.

NYU Press scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rastafari movement--History--20th century.

Rastafari movement.

Black theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2023]

Summary:

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 travelled throughout the Caribbean, Africa, and America capturing the heart and imagination of much of the African diaspora. Not satisfied with simply narrating the past, Rastafari also takes on the challenges of gender equality and the commodification of Rastafari culture in the 21st century without abandoning its message of equality and empowering the downpressed.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Explaining Rastafari Ethnogenesis: A Framework

2. Initial Conditions: Converging Streams of Moral Black Consciousness in Jamaica and Elites' Fear of Black Supremacy

3. Vectors, Collisions, Contention: Collective Identity Formation, 1930-34

4. Rastafari on Trial, 1934: Expounding the Rastafari Doctrine

5. Conflict and Retreat: Sinking Cultural Roots

6. The Menace Becomes Dreadful: Rastafari Flex Their Muscle

7. Of Beards, Insurrection, and Rehabilitation: Social Paranoia and Reverend Claudius Henry's Disruptions

8. The Report on the Rastafari: Its Effects and Concealed Motives

9. Growing Influence Brings Growing Pains: Unification and Fragmentation Tussle

10. New Challenges for the Rastafari: Assault on the House of David, Commodification of Rastafari Culture, and Gender

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Price, Charles Rastafari

ISBN:

1-4798-7159-1

OCLC:

1352951418