Women and Resistance in the Early Rastafari Movement
Daive Dunkley (author)
ISBN 10: 0807175692 ISBN 13: 9780807175699
Published by LSU Press, 2021
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Women and Resistance in the Early Rastafari Movement is a pioneering study of women's resistance in the emergent Rastafari movement in colonial Jamaica. As D. A. Dunkley demonstrates, Rastafari women had to contend not only with the various attempts made by the government and nonmembers to suppress the movement, but also with oppression and silencing from among their own ranks. Dunkley examines the lives and experiences of a group of Rastafari women between the movement's inception in the 1930s and Jamaica's independence from Britain in the 1960s, uncovering their sense of agency and resistance against both male domination and societal opposition to their Rastafari identity. Countering many years of scholarship that privilege the stories of Rastafari men, Women and Resistance in the Early Rastafari Movement reclaims the voices and narratives of early Rastafari women in the history of the Black liberation struggle.
About the Author: D. A. Dunkley is associate professor of history in the Department of Black Studies at the University of Missouri.
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Title: Women and Resistance in the Early Rastafari ...
Publisher: LSU Press
Publication Date: 2021
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Brand New