Currents in History, Cultural Domination, and Mass13 Communication in the Caribbean

2007 ◽  
pp. 213-232
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Domination ◽  
The Caribbean

scholarly journals Understanding a modern antique: challenges to representing Rastafari in the twenty-first century

2005 ◽  
Vol 79 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 79-90
Author(s):  
John P. Homiak
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
First Century ◽  
South American ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Cultural Domination ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Culture And Language

Drawing increasingly upon digital technologies and the internet to assert a sense of community even as they cultivate an austere biblical persona, adherents of Rastafari can be thought of as simultaneously modern and antique. Their claim to antiquity is grounded in a collectively professed African-Ethiopian identity that has not only resisted the ravages of enslavement, colonialism, and European cultural domination but is seen to transcend local differences of culture and language. Theirs is a way of life organized around theocratic principles that begin with a recognition of the divine in all peoples and as the basis of all human agency. Rastafari assert the universal relevance of these principles to the conditions of modernity even as they persistently claim social justice on behalf of all peoples of African descent exploited by colonialism and the prevailing global capitalist-imperialist system. Based on these general themes, the Rastafari movement has come to represent a large-scale cultural phenomenon that has long since burst the chains of its colonial containment in Jamaica. From the late 1960s onward it has spread throughout the Caribbean and the Central and South American rimland to the major metropoles of North America and Europe as well as to many sites on the African continent.

Cultural Domination and Political Subordination: Notes towards a Theory of the Caribbean Political System

1973 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 258-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. W. Singham ◽  
N. L. Singham
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Political System ◽  
Cultural Domination ◽  
The Caribbean

It is no accident that the study of comparative politics, and especially thestudy of political development, has been dominated by scholars from themetropolitan countries, or by those trained in metropolitan universities.This interest in the politics of the subordinate world has resulted in aseries of case studies, which we have assumed have added substantially toour knowledge about these hitherto neglected areas. However, untilfairly recently, little attention has been paid to the underlying assumptionsand ideologies of these metropolitan scholars, and the distortions, consciousand unconscious, introduced into scholarship on these areas underthe guise of scientific and value-free methodologies.

scholarly journals Understanding a modern antique: challenges to representing Rastafari in the twenty-first century

2008 ◽  
Vol 79 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 79-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. Homiak
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
First Century ◽  
South American ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Cultural Domination ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Culture And Language

Drawing increasingly upon digital technologies and the internet to assert a sense of community even as they cultivate an austere biblical persona, adherents of Rastafari can be thought of as simultaneously modern and antique. Their claim to antiquity is grounded in a collectively professed African-Ethiopian identity that has not only resisted the ravages of enslavement, colonialism, and European cultural domination but is seen to transcend local differences of culture and language. Theirs is a way of life organized around theocratic principles that begin with a recognition of the divine in all peoples and as the basis of all human agency. Rastafari assert the universal relevance of these principles to the conditions of modernity even as they persistently claim social justice on behalf of all peoples of African descent exploited by colonialism and the prevailing global capitalist-imperialist system. Based on these general themes, the Rastafari movement has come to represent a large-scale cultural phenomenon that has long since burst the chains of its colonial containment in Jamaica. From the late 1960s onward it has spread throughout the Caribbean and the Central and South American rimland to the major metropoles of North America and Europe as well as to many sites on the African continent.

Delusions in the Caribbean

1963 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-70
Author(s):  
WALTER MISCHEL
Keyword(s):  
The Caribbean
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