TY  - BOOK
AU  - Price,Charles
TI  - Becoming Rasta: Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica 
SN  - 9780814767467
AV  - BL2532.R37 P75 2016
U1  - 299.676097292 23
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Black people
KW  - Race identity
KW  - Jamaica
KW  - Identification (Religion)
KW  - Rastafari movement
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - 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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ER  -