African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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267 p., Draws on in-depth interviews to reveal the personal experiences of those who adopted the religion in the 1950s to 1970s, one generation past the movement's emergence . By talking with these Rastafari elders, he seeks to understand why and how Jamaicans became Rastafari in spite of rampant discrimination, and what sustains them in their faith and identity.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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247 p, Argues that development processes and social movements shape each other in uneven and paradoxical ways. She bases her argument on ethnographic analysis of the black social movements that emerged from and interacted with political and economic changes in Colombia's Pacific lowlands, or Chocó region, in the 1990s.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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120 p, Includes the author's experiences as a teenager, rescue the popular speech and collective creation of legends like "Elf", "the wandur", "dead", "the Shina huaca", etc .; or set of stories about the fox and outrage against the lion, which were counted by their grandparents, rescuing ancient oral traditions