The Early Years of Rastafari Oppression in Jamaica
From its founding in the early 1930’s, the Jamaican state has targeted Rastafari. And for the next 30 years, this oppression of its members by the Jamaica State would continue and eventually culminated in April 1963 in the event now immortalised as the Coral Gardens Massacre.
Additional Knowledge
BOOKS
Book of Memory: A Rastafari Testimony by Prince Williams and Michael Kuelker
Becoming Rasta: Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica Paperback by Charles Price
Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader by Nathaniel Samuel Murrell, William Spencer and Adrian Anthony McFarlane
Early Encounters in Colonial Jamaica: Hindu and Rastafari Divine Metaphysics by Dominique Stewart
Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica by Deborah A. Thomas
Mirror, Mirror: Identity, Race and Protest in Jamaica by Rex Nettleford
Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and The Politics of Culture in Jamaica by Deborah A. Thomas
N.W. Manley and The Making of Modern Jamaica by Arnold Bertram
Race, Class, and Political Symbols: Rastafari and Reggae in Jamaican Politics By Anita M. Water
Radicalism and Social Change in Jamaica, 1960-1972 by Obika Gray
Rastafari: The Evolution of a People and Their Identity by Charles Price
Violence and Politics in Jamaica, 1960-70: Internal Security in a Developing Country by Terry Lacey
Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey
The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism by Helene Lee
The Promise Key by Leonard Howell
ACADEMIC PAPERS
Coral Gardens 1963: The Rastafari and Jamaican Independence by Horace G. Campbell
Rastafari, Communism, and Surveillance in Late Colonial Jamaica by Deborah A. Thomas
Rastafari: Culture of Resistance by Dr. Horace Campbell
Rastafari Dialectism: The Epistemological Individualism and Conectivism of Rastafari by Michael Barnett
Leonard P. Howell's Leadership of the Rastafari Movement and His "Missing Years" by Daive A. Dunkley
Religion and Justice: Some Reflections on the Rastafari Movement by George Eaton Simpson
Social Change and the Development and Co-Optation of a Black Antisystemic Identity: The Case of Rastafarians in Jamaica by Charles Reavis Price
Sociological Means: Colonial Reactions to the Radicalization of Rastafari in Jamaica, 1956–1959 by Frank Jan van Dijk
The Rastafari Movement In Kingston, Jamaica by M. G. Smith, Roy Augier and Rex Nettleford
REPORTS
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
The Earth’s Most Strangest Man: The Rastafarian by Mortimo Planno
FICTIONAL BOOKS
Augustown by Kei Miller
Brother Man by Roger Mais
The Children of Sisyphus by Orlando Patterson
The Marvelous Equations of The Dread by Marcia Douglas
DOCUMENTARIES
Bad Friday: Rastafari After Coral Gardens ,(2011), directed by by Deborah A. Thomas, John L. Jackson, Jr. and Junior "Gabu" Wedderburn