Rastafari

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Rastafari

• Repatriation or Bust

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Influences

• Slavery Displacement
• Marcus Mosiah Garvey

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Slavery in Jamaica

• Poverty
• Oppression
• Alienation

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Marcus Garvey

• Black Rights
• Back To Africa

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

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Haile Selassie

• Crowned emperor November 1930
• God Incarnate

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Shashamane Land Grant
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• 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.

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Impressions of Rasta

• Feared by Mainstream Jamaicans
• Appearance
• Ganja and Dreads

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Criticism

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

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• Rastafari
• Reasonings

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Paulo Freire

• Conscientization

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Identity Shift

• Pride in African Heritage
• Established Individuality

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Ethiopia as Mecca

• A Holy Place