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Jah People: the cultural hybridity of white Rastafarians

Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2013
For more than half a century, the African-based Rastafarian movement has existed and thrived. Since the early 1930s, Rastafari has developed, changed and gained enough supporters to be considered “one of the most popular Afro-Caribbean religions of the ...
Michael Loadenthal
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Rastafarianism in Bullet Tree Falls, Belize: Exploring the Effects of International Trends

Societies, 2020
In 1991, a group of Rastafarians in the village of Bullet Tree Falls, Belize, started out adhering to the principles of piety and protest that characterized the Rastafarians when began in Jamaica in the 1930s.
Andrew Gordon
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Na rua se faz trabalho: música e religiosidade entre rastafaris na periferia paulistana

Argumentos, 2023
Music has become one of the greatest forms of expression for Rastafari, a cultural movement that emerged in 1930 in Jamaica and that during its development established connections between religiosity, politics, leisure and work ...
Marcelo Yokoi
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Rastafarians in Post-Independence Caribbean Poetry in English (the 1960s and the 1970s): from Pariahs to Cultural Creators

Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2011
This article proposes to look at the way Rastafarians were portrayed in various ways by West Indian poets in the 1960s and 1970s. After paying attention to the historical and cultural context, the article focuses on three main strands in the portrayal of
Eric Doumerc
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In search of identity: Being a Rastafarian in Democratic Malawi [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology, 2020
Although the Rastafari movement continues to attract a growing number of people around the world, not much is known in relation to how they have managed to sustain their identity despite the persecution and discrimination that most encounter.
Luvuyo Ntombana, Stewart Maganga
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The appearance and significance of Rastafari cultural aspects in South Africa

Contree, 2014
This article explores the presence and importance of Rastafari cultural features in South Africa. These cultural aspects include symbols and language that have become popular in South Africa from 1997 when the movement was formalised.1 The symbols ...
Midas Chawane
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À contre-courant : les mobilités caribéennes vers l’Éthiopie

Études Caribéennes, 2007
The article deals with Caribbean migration towards Ethiopia, and especially the one of Rastafarians who define themselves as ‘true Ethiopians’ and ‘repatriates’ in Ethiopia.
Giulia Bonacci
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Treated as ‘niggers’ in our own country: lived experiences of Rastafarians in the Democratic Malawi [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology, 2020
The focus of this paper is on the lived experiences of Rastafarians in post-1994 Malawi. The one significant change brought about by the elections of 1994 was the amendment of the constitution which had long ignored issues pertaining to human rights ...
Steward Maganga, Luvuyo Ntombana
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Bearing Black

Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology, 2013
In this essay I critically examine the idea of race in light of the killing of Trayvon Martin, an African-American unarmed teenager, in Florida in February 2012.
Deanne Bell, Ph.D.
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Listening to Intergalactic Sounds – Articulation of Rastafarian Livity in Finnish Roots Reggae Sound System Performances

Temenos, 2015
Rastafari is an Afro-Jamaican religious and social movement, which has since the 1970s spread outside of the Caribbean mainly through reggae music. This paper contributes to the academic discussion on the localization processes of Rastafari and reggae ...
Tuomas Järvenpää
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