Rasta, race and revolution: Transnational connections in socialist Cuba
@article{Hansing2001RastaRA, title={Rasta, race and revolution: Transnational connections in socialist Cuba}, author={Katrin Hansing}, journal={Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies}, year={2001}, volume={27}, pages={733 - 747} }
Within the past three decades the Jamaican Rastafari movement has been transformed from a local Caribbean to a global cultural phenomenon. Reggae music and other popular cultural media have been the primary catalysts in this international spread of the movement. As a result, Rastafari has lost its original territorial moorings and become a travelling culture. Global in scope, Rastafari has nevertheless been localised in very different ways, depending on where the movement has been appropriated…
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