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Rastafari is a pan-African spiritual and philosophical movement that surfaced in colonial Jamaica in 1930. Followers of this movement believe in the divinity of former Ethiopian emperor Haile Selas...

Il est frequent de penser les dominations sous une forme hierarchisee, les inegalites de classe etant supposees predeterminer les autres. Cette tradition intellectuelle et politique a du evoluer sous la critique du feminisme qui a reussi a pluraliser les modes de domination en ajoutant le genre a la classe. Mais la place de la race reste encore disputee, l’autonomie de la domination raciale etant toujours illegitime en France. Classe et race sont le plus souvent pensees en concurrence, comme s’il s’agissait de choisir un principe de hierarchisation principal et un autre secondaire. Mouvements a reuni dans une table ronde des chercheur.ses et activistes dans le champ de l’antiracisme pour debattre de la place qu’occupe la classe dans leur approche des inegalites.

The 2005 riots in France in response to the tragic deaths of Bouna Traore and Zyed Benna from Clichy-sous-Bois raised anew questions about the situation of immigrants in the banlieues of France. Maboula Soumahoro assesses the state of the media and the Republique francaise .

The Afro-Jamaican Rastafarians and the African American Nation of Islam (NOI) are two nationalist religious groups that both emerged in urban centers in the Americas during the early 1930s. Following the activities of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), both groups adopted religious approaches to the sociopolitical issues of the era. According to historian Michael Gomez, the black populations of the Americas during this period included three different groups that could be distinguished by their positions in relation to Christianity: The first [group] extended a process that began with the African initial contact with European Christianity, whereby the religion was steadily Africanized both liturgically as well as theologically. The second … also continuing from previous periods, involved practices developed in Africa and transferred to the Americas, where they were renewed with some alteration but remained identifiably African. The third saw the creation of new religions, typically taken from the fabrics of Islamic-Judeo-Christian traditions, and woven into entirely novel patterns, informed by a vision of Africa as a historical power and, at least in one instance, a future destination. (Gomez 2005: 170)

The modern slave trade and its commerce in enslaved Africans caused the scattering of people of African descent throughout the Americas. Second only to Brazil, the Caribbean islands absorbed the bu...

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