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Blackness as a Durable Cultural Resource Blackness as a Durable Cultural Resource
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The Morant Bay Rebellion: Blackness and the Moral Economy The Morant Bay Rebellion: Blackness and the Moral Economy
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Moral Economy of Blackness Moral Economy of Blackness
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Elements of Moral Economy Elements of Moral Economy
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The Emergence of Blackness in Jamaica: Deracination and Cultural Procreativity The Emergence of Blackness in Jamaica: Deracination and Cultural Procreativity
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The Maroon Wars: Early Formulations of a Moral Economy of Blackness The Maroon Wars: Early Formulations of a Moral Economy of Blackness
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Dynamics of Deracination and Cultural Procreativity Dynamics of Deracination and Cultural Procreativity
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Rebellion and Morally Configured Black Identities Rebellion and Morally Configured Black Identities
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Fusions of Religion, Blackness, and Rebellion Fusions of Religion, Blackness, and Rebellion
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Free to Be Oppressed Free to Be Oppressed
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Ethiopianism: A Framework for Morally Configured Black Identities Ethiopianism: A Framework for Morally Configured Black Identities
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Alexander Bedward and the Bedwardite Movement: The Moral Economy of Blackness and Anticolonialism Alexander Bedward and the Bedwardite Movement: The Moral Economy of Blackness and Anticolonialism
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Marcus Garvey: Modernizing Ethiopianism Marcus Garvey: Modernizing Ethiopianism
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The Text Augments the Word The Text Augments the Word
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The Rastafari: A New Configuration of Moral Blackness The Rastafari: A New Configuration of Moral Blackness
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1 Race Formation and Morally Configured Black Identities
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Published:September 2009
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This chapter discusses how Blackness and its various permutations—especially the morally configured ones—develop in Jamaica and persist to the present. It looks at the lineage of Rastafari rhetoric and practice, the varied routes they traveled in becoming who they are, and how on the eve of the twenty-first century, a people who only four decades earlier were feared and despised, had become cultural exemplars of Blackness. In Jamaica, morally configured Black identities like Rastafari draw deeply upon the cultural resources of racialized moral economies. These are cultural artifacts created and reinforced through Black people's experience of uprisings, reprisals, dashed hopes, marginalization, and a strong desire for better and for building genuine communitas.
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