
From its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence. While the existing studies of the Rastafarian movement have primarily focused on its cultural expression through reggae music, art, and iconography, Monique A. Bedasse argues that repatriation to Africa represents the most important vehicle of Rastafari's international growth. Shifting the scholarship on r...
Paperback: 270 pages
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (October 9, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1469633590
ISBN-13: 978-1469633596
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.7 x 9.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 1062200
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A fascinating text that gives readers insight into the much-guarded Rastafarian oral archive. Discusses Rastafarian theological belief systems & the twelve mansions, explains Rasta relations with Afrocentrism and Pan-Africanism, summarizes Rasta crit...
from Ethiopia to Tanzania, Bedasse foregrounds Rastafari's enduring connection to black radical politics and establishes Tanzania as a critical site to explore gender, religion, race, citizenship, socialism, and nation. Beyond her engagement with how the Rastafarian idea of Africa translated into a lived reality, she demonstrates how Tanzanian state and nonstate actors not only validated the Rastafarian idea of diaspora but were also crucial to defining the parameters of Pan-Africanism.Based on previously undiscovered oral and written sources from Tanzania, Jamaica, England, the United States, and Trinidad, Bedasse uncovers a vast and varied transnational network--including Julius Nyerere, Michael Manley, and C. L. R James--revealing Rastafari's entrenchment in the making of Pan-Africanism in the postindependence period.