Leonard Percival Howell and the Genesis of Rastafari
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- ISBN 9789766405496
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2015
- Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
- Publication City/Country: JM
- Product Form: Paperback
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“The contributors to this volume have found the language and concepts by which to interpret Leonard Howell and the origins of the Rastafari movement in the 1930s. This volume is richly documented from the archives, and from interviews, and is informed by multidisciplinary methods, so the reader is treated to an authoritative and comprehensive collection of essays.
“Leonard Howell was persecuted over five decades by the British colonial state and by Jamaican governments since independence in 1962. It is in this context that Howell defined the main tenets of the movement, a movement that has now spread globally. All the major themes of his thinking, such as African redemption, the divinity of Haile Selassie, repatriation, and the struggle for freedom and self-reliance are discussed. Howell challenged British colonialism and Jamaican elites in a very different way from the approaches used by the middle-class intelligentsia. He focused, rather, on a new way of seeing God, King and self, thus creating an alternative way of being in the world. Developing Marcus Garvey’s focus on Africa, Leonard Howell and his followers reclaimed their ancestral identity from the dehumanized condition left by British slavery and colonialism. Howell’s communal settlement on ‘Pinnacle’ was an alternative communal space for Rastafari artisans, musicians and peasant farmers.”—Rupert Lewis, Professor Emeritus, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
“Leonard Howell was persecuted over five decades by the British colonial state and by Jamaican governments since independence in 1962. It is in this context that Howell defined the main tenets of the movement, a movement that has now spread globally. All the major themes of his thinking, such as African redemption, the divinity of Haile Selassie, repatriation, and the struggle for freedom and self-reliance are discussed. Howell challenged British colonialism and Jamaican elites in a very different way from the approaches used by the middle-class intelligentsia. He focused, rather, on a new way of seeing God, King and self, thus creating an alternative way of being in the world. Developing Marcus Garvey’s focus on Africa, Leonard Howell and his followers reclaimed their ancestral identity from the dehumanized condition left by British slavery and colonialism. Howell’s communal settlement on ‘Pinnacle’ was an alternative communal space for Rastafari artisans, musicians and peasant farmers.”—Rupert Lewis, Professor Emeritus, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Clinton A. Hutton is Lecturer in Political Philosophy and Culture, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Michael A. Barnett is Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
D.A. Dunkley is Assistant Professor, Department of Black Studies,University of Missouri, United States.
Jahlani A.H. Niaah is Lecturer in Cultural and Rastafari Studies, Institute for Caribbean Studies, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
Michael A. Barnett is Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
D.A. Dunkley is Assistant Professor, Department of Black Studies,University of Missouri, United States.
Jahlani A.H. Niaah is Lecturer in Cultural and Rastafari Studies, Institute for Caribbean Studies, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
