Ethos of Blackness - Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and Consciousness

This book is a groundbreaking account of Rastafari, demonstrating that it provides a normative conception of Blackness for people of African descent that resists Eurocentric and colonial ideas.

List of contents

Preface
1. Resistance to British Colonialism and the Rise of Two Forms of Subjectivity in “Yamaye”
2. The Genealogy of Rastafari Cosmology and Its Distinctive Ethos of Blackness
3. Rastafari Cosmology, Natural Artifacts, and the Ethos of Blackness
4. Rastafari’s Theology of Blackness: A Eurocentric God Cannot Love Africans and People of African Descent
5. Rastafari I-Talk and Black Consciousness
6. The Limit of Rastafari Cosmology: Gender Inequality and the Failure to Liberate Rasta Women
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Vivaldi Jean-Marie teaches in the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department at Columbia University and is a professor of philosophy at the City University of New York. He is the author of Vodou Cosmology and the Haitian Revolution in the Enlightenment Ideals of Kant and Hegel (2018), Reflections on Jean Améry: Torture, Resentment, and Homelessness as the Mind’s Limits (2018), Kierkegaard: History and Eternal Happiness (2008), and Fanon: Collective Ethics and Humanism (2007).

Summary

This book is a groundbreaking account of Rastafari, demonstrating that it provides a normative conception of Blackness for people of African descent that resists Eurocentric and colonial ideas.

Product details

• Authors: Vivaldi Jean-Marie, Jean-Marie Vivaldi
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.09.2023
• EAN: 9780231209762
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20976-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
• Subjects: Guides; Ethnic Studies, Social Science, Jamaica, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Family & health, Caribbean islands, Relating to indigenous peoples, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs, History / Caribbean & West Indies / Jamaica, RELIGION / Folk & Tribal