An Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and Consciousness
Vivaldi Jean-Marie, "An Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and Consciousness "
English | ISBN: 0231209762 | 2023 | 248 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0231209762 | 2023 | 248 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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 people of African descent that resists Eurocentric and colonial ideas.
Vivaldi Jean-Marie examines Rastafari’s core beliefs and practices, arguing that they constitute a distinctively Black system of norms and values―at once an ethos and a cosmology. He traces Rastafari’s origins in enslaved people’s strategies of resistance, Jamaican Revivalism, and Garveyism, showing how it incorporates ancestral religious traditions and emancipatory politics.
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