rastafari movement

The classic work on the history and beliefs of the Rastafarians, whose roots of protest go back to the seventeenth-century maroon societies of escaped slaves in Jamaica. Based on an extensive study of the Rastafarians, their history, their ideology, and their influence in Jamaica, The Rastafarians is an important contribution to the sociology of religion and to our knowledge of the variety of religious expressions that have grown up during the West African Diaspora in the Western Hemisphere.

Introduces the basics of Rastafarianism through the eyes of a child of living in Brooklyn after his parents emigrated from Jamaica where the religion began in 1930.

Traces the cultural roots of the Rastafari movement in Jamaica, and offers an enthographic description in the city of Kingston.

A memoir in which the author recounts the death of her brother at the age of thirty-three from AIDS, and recalls incidents from his life, and the lives of other family members on the island of Antigua.

A memoir in which the author recounts the death of her brother at the age of thirty-three from AIDS, and recalls incidents from his life, and the lives of other family members on the island of Antigua.