An Ethos of Blackness : : Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and Consciousness / / Vivaldi Jean-Marie.

Rastafari is an Afrocentric social and religious movement that emerged among Afro-Jamaican communities in the 1930s and has many adherents in the Caribbean and worldwide today. This book is a groundbreaking account of Rastafari, demonstrating that it provides a normative conception of Blackness for...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • 1 RESISTANCE TO BRITISH COLONIALISM AND THE RISE OF TWO FORMS OF SUBJECTIVITY IN “YAMAYE”
  • 2 THE GENEALOGY OF RASTAFARI COSMOLOGY AND ITS DISTINCTIVE ETHOS OF BLACKNESS
  • 3 RASTAFARI COSMOLOGY, NATURAL ARTIFACTS, AND THE ETHOS OF BLACKNESS
  • 4 RASTAFARI’S THEOLOGY OF BLACKNESS A Eurocentric God Cannot Love Africans and People of African Descent
  • 5 RASTAFARI I-TALK AND BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS
  • 6 THE LIMIT OF RASTAFARI COSMOLOGY Gender Inequality and the Failure to Liberate Rasta Women
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX