Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization

Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of DecolonizationFrom its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence. While the existing studies of the Rastafarian movement have primarily focused on its cultural expression through reggae music, art, and iconography, Monique A. Bedasse argues that repatriation to Africa represents the most important vehicle of Rastafari's international growth. Shifting the scholarship on repatriation from Ethiopia to Tanzania, Bedasse

Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present

” Hard-worn victories

Batrell's powerful memoir provides profound insights into the role of race in the nation's history

no-limits characters

none were ever as successful as antiquity's three most famous military leaders

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swears off married men

sums up much of what Americans know about that remarkable decade of struggle

or your Shakespearian style of writing

The tsunami of interest in genetic ancestry tracing from the African American community has been especially overwhelming

Lewis was a beacon of hope and a model of humility whose invocation to “good trouble” continues to inspire millions across our nation

describing the joy and peril of aging and recalling the violence that permeated her parents' marriage and her early life