Coolie Gang, Ghettos and Rastafari: A Story of Four Continents and A Couple Black Markets
"In most scholarship, the Rastafari movement is thought to have formed from a rethinking of biblical prophecies enabled by Black consciousness. Rastafari scholars have not sufficiently probed the tentative connections between the movement and Hinduism. Most map the movement in a dialectic between White oppressive Christianity and oppressed Afro-Jamaicans, which has produced a Rastafari that reappropriates, repurposes, and reproduces the Black and African ethos while actively disentangling the Afro-Indian intimacies that are found across the archives. Moreover, this view diminishes the agency of the members of the Jamaican lower class (the Indo and Afro-Jamaicans) to organize among themselves. This [audio] article... aims to excavate the historical silences of the Hindu contributions to the genesis and development of the movement’s metaphysics"
Song at the beginning of episode: Super Cat - Ghetto Red Hot
Song at the end of episode: Beverly Pancham Ramparsard - Chitawaniya Me Naina
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