Becoming Rasta : Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica / Charles Price.
2009
BL2532.R37 P75 2016
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Title
Becoming Rasta : Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica / Charles Price.
Author
Price, Charles, author.
ISBN
9780814768464
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814767467.001.0001 doi
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BL2532.R37 P75 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
299.676097292
Summary
So much has been written about the Rastafari, yet we know so little about why and how people join the Rastafari movement. Although popular understandings evoke images of dreadlocks, reggae, and marijuana, Rastafarians were persecuted in their country, becoming a people seeking social justice. Yet new adherents continued to convert to Rastafari despite facing adverse reactions from their fellow citizens and from their British rulers.Charles Price draws on in-depth interviews to reveal the personal experiences of those who adopted the religion in the 1950s to 1970s, one generation past the movement's emergence . By talking with these Rastafari elders, he seeks to understand why and how Jamaicans became Rastafari in spite of rampant discrimination, and what sustains them in their faith and identity.Utilizing new conceptual frameworks, Price explores the identity development of Rastafari, demonstrating how shifts in the movement's identity-from social pariah to exemplar of Blackness-have led some of the elder Rastafari to adopt, embrace, and internalize Rastafari and blackness as central to their concept of self.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Race Formation and Morally Configured Black Identities
2. Ethnogenesis, Surprise, and Collective Identity Formation
3. The Positive Power of Stigma and Black Identity
4. Encounters
5. Acts of Identity Work
6. Rastafari Nation on the Move
Conclusion
Acronyms
Notes
References
Index
About the Author
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Race Formation and Morally Configured Black Identities
2. Ethnogenesis, Surprise, and Collective Identity Formation
3. The Positive Power of Stigma and Black Identity
4. Encounters
5. Acts of Identity Work
6. Rastafari Nation on the Move
Conclusion
Acronyms
Notes
References
Index
About the Author