Rasta and Resistance: From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney

by Horace Campbell

Book Overview

Rasta and Resistance is a study of the Rastafarian movement in all it's manifestations, from its evolution in the hills of Jamaica to its present manisfestations in the streets of Birmingham and Shashamane Settlement in Ethiopia. It traces the cultural, political and spiritual sources of this movement of resistance, hightlighting the quest for change among an oppressed people. This book serves to break the intellectual traditions which placed the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865430357
• ISBN13: 9780865430358
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Africa World Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

The Century's Most Provocative Historiographer!!!

I had the privilege of "awakening" under the masterful stewardship of Dr. Horace Campbell. He is no longer teaching in Tanzania, but spent many years cultivating and producing great thinkers in Zimbabwe, where I met him. Since then, he has continued his tenureship stateside returning to Syracuse University in 1996. Exposing yourself to an essay, article or book by Dr. Campbell will provide interesting and compelling realizations of African and Caribbean political histories.

A Very Good Book On The Black History Of The Carribean

History teaches a lot about the Black struggles here in the United States, but you hardly find any books about slavery and Black struggles in the Carribean and South America. Rasta and Resistance talks about the beginnings of the slave trade, slavery in Brazil, the Haitian Revolution and Toussaint L'Ouverture, Walter Rodney, Rastafarianism, ska and reggae music, and Black struggles in Great Britain. A great book for those wanting to learn more about the lost chapters of slavery and Black struggles.