Let Us Start With Africa: Foundations of Rastafari Scholarship

by Jahlani A.H. Niaah (Editor), Erin C. Macleod (Editor)

Overview

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The collection Let Us Start with Africa: Foundations of Rastafari Scholarship commemorates the inaugural Rastafari Studies Conference, held in August 2010, and collects, for the first time, some of the main thinkers on Rastafari. It is an exciting and wide-ranging text that provides insights on the last fifty years of investigations into Rastafari.

This book offers some of the most significant unpublished work from pioneering scholars of Rastafari as they examine the history, development and future of Rastafari scholarship. With a foreword by renowned Garvey scholar Rupert Lewis and a comprehensive introduction by the editors, this collection is essential reading for students of Rastafari studies, as well as African and Caribbean studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789766404093
Publisher:	The University of the West Indies Press
Publication date:	08/01/2013
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jahlani A.H. Niaah is Lecturer in Cultural and Rastafari Studies, Institute for Caribbean Studies, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, where he also coordinates the Rastafari Studies Unit.

Erin C. MacLeod teaches at Vanier College in Montreal, Canada, and has also served as a Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Her books include Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land (NYU Press) and Let Us Start With Africa: Foundations of Rastafari Scholarship (UWI Press) with co-editor Jahlani Niaah.

Table of Contents

Foreword Rupert Lewis ix

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction Jahlani Niaah Erin MacLeod 1

1 From the Cross to the Throne Rex Nettleford 10

2 Polite Violence Mortimo Planno 22

3 You Must Be Willing to Reason Together Roy Augier 43

4 When Goldilocks Met the Dreadlocks: Reflections on the Contributions of Carole D. Yawney to Rastafari Studies John Homiak 56

5 The Call of the Rastafari Barry Chevannes 117

Contributors 131