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"They Took Us by Boat and We're Coming Back by Plane." An Assessment of Rastafari and Repatriation

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Repatriation to Africa represents a cornerstone of Rastafari faith and livity, a structuring paradigm of the movement's development, and an ongoing physical mobility toward Africa. This paper proposes an assessment of the significance of Repatriation, which is still largely ignored in the literature on the Rastafari movement. The claim for the right to return to Africa ties Rastafari to the broader history of Black peoples in the Americas who have emphasized return as a redemptive mobility or as a political solution to their marginalized condition. Repatriation is a concept and a practice that raises many challenges and contradictions; and it endures in many different forms and places. Particular attention is given to repatriation to Ethiopia, but other African countries are addressed as well.

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hal-03326193 , version 1 (25-08-2021)

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Giulia Bonacci. "They Took Us by Boat and We're Coming Back by Plane." An Assessment of Rastafari and Repatriation. IDEAZ, 2020, 15, pp.150-165. ⟨hal-03326193⟩
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