Women and Resistance in the Early Rastafari Movement - Hardcover

Dunkley, Daive

 
9780807175699: Women and Resistance in the Early Rastafari Movement
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0807175692 ISBN 13: 9780807175699
Publisher: LSU Press, 2021

Synopsis

Winner of the Barbara T. Christian Literary Award

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.

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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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Publisher
LSU Press
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0807175692
ISBN 13 
9780807175699
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
210