Becoming Rasta
Subtitle: origins of Rastafari identity in Jamaica
By: Charles Price.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780814767467; 9780814767474
Subjects: Rastafari movement -- Jamaica; Identification (Religion); Blacks -- Race identity -- Jamaica; Jamaica -- Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction: Rastafari, blackness, identity; title: Emergence of morally-configured Black identities; title: Ethnogenesis, surprise, and collective identity formation; title: The positive power of stigma and Black identity; title: Encounters; title: Acts of identity work; title: Rastafari nation on the move; title: Conclusion: Toward a more comprehensive understanding of racial identity formation.