Vivaldi Jean-Marie

An Ethos of Blackness

Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and Consciousness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 138mm x 217mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 320g
• ISBN-13: 9780231209779
• ISBN-10: 0231209770
• Artikelnr.: 67750228

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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