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Title: Rastafari


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Rastafari
  • Repatriation or Bust

2
Influences
  • Slavery Displacement
  • Marcus Mosiah Garvey

3
Slavery in Jamaica
  • Poverty
  • Oppression
  • Alienation

4
Marcus Garvey
  • Black Rights
  • Back To Africa

5
  • Look to Africa, for there a
  • king will be crowned.
  • -Marcus Garvey
  • 1929

6
Haile Selassie
  • Crowned emperor November 1930
  • God Incarnate

7
Shashamane Land Grant
8
  • Rastafari is an African way of life. Our deity
    is African, our prophet is African, our signs and
    symbols and philosophy are also African. This is
    the depth with which we are able to take the
    concept of repatriation.

9
Impressions of Rasta
  • Feared by Mainstream Jamaicans
  • Appearance
  • Ganja and Dreads

10
Criticism
  • Inactive toward making change
  • Counter-culture
  • Narrow views

11
  • Rastafari
  • Reasonings

12
Paulo Freire
  • Conscientization

13
Identity Shift
  • Pride in African Heritage
  • Established Individuality

14
Ethiopia as Mecca
  • A Holy Place
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