Horace Cambell was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica in 1945. He is a writer, teacher and political activist who has
taught in Africa, the Caribbean, Britain and North America. His writings include two books: Four essays on Neo-Colonialism
in Uganda, and Pan-Africanism: The Struggle Against Neo-Colonialism and Imperialism as well as numerous
articles, papers and essays which have been published in various journals in Britain, North America, the Caribbean
and Africa. Since 1981, he has been teaching at the University of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania, East Africa.
Review
"Cambell has many of the qualifications for the task he has undertaken. He has been struggling for some
years to apply the scientific theory of society to the reality of African and Caribbean politics, and in the process
has avoided the creation of false gods."
-Eusi Kwayana
Africa World Press Web Site
March, 2000
Summary
This book addresses the historical, political and subjective levels of the Rastafari. Rasta and Resistance concentrates
on the ways in which Rastas and Rastafari, like other great religions, resolves the conflict between faith and
works, contemplation and action. A central theme in the book is also the role of the Rastafari in the Caribbean
revolution. Horace Cambell explains the ways in which Rastafari, a religion that arose from the most oppressed
sections of the working population, has become perhaps the most influential cultural movement in the Caribbean
today and a driving force in movements against oppression of Caribbean peoples.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Do You Remember the Days of Slavery? Part I: Slavery and the Roots of Resistance
Do You Remember on the Slave Ship, How They Brutalized my Very Soul?
When I Hear the Crack of a Whip, my Blood Runs Cold
Resistance to Slavery in Jamaica
Going Back to Africa, Cause I'm Black
Me No No Quashie
Of the Spiritual World and the Material World
Religion and Resistance
The Armed Slave Revolts
Part II: From Emancipation to the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865
Claeve to the Black
Chapter 2: Ethiopianism, Pan-Africanism and Garveyism
The Scramble for Africa
Ethiopianism
Pan-Africanism and Garveyism
Garveyism and Racial Consciousness
Garvey and the Symbols of Racial Pride
Garveyism in Jamaica
Chapter 3: The Origins of Rasta - Rasta and the Revolt of the Sufferers in Jamaica 1938
The Origins of Rastafari
Rastafari, the Black World and the Italian Invasion of Abyssinia
Rastafari and the Ethiopian World Federation
The Capitalist Depression in Jamaica
And the People Rise Up in 1938
The Transition from Colonialism to Neo-Colonialism
Idealism and Materialism in Jamaica
Chapter 4: Man in the Hills: Rasta, the Jamaican State and the Ganja Trade Locksmen
Rastaman a Lion - from Quashie to Lion
Hail Jah Rastafari
Are Rastas Violent Cultists?
The University Report
Rasta, Ganja and the State
Outlawing a Popular Custom
Kola Nuts and Ganja
Operation Buccaneer
Coptics and the New Subversion
Chapter 5: Rasta , Reggae and Cultural Resistance
Rasta and the Rediscovery of the Cultural Heritage of the Slave
The Roots of Reggae
Walter Rodney's Groundings with his Brothers
Dis Ya Reggae Music - Roots, Rock, Reggae
Bob Marley and the Internationalization of Reggae and Rasta
Marley in Zimbabwe
Bob Marley, Rasta and Uprising
Cultural Resistance and Political Change
Chapter 6: The Rastafarians in the Eastern Caribbean
The Nationalist Forebears of the Rasta
The Dreads
Rasta, Union Island and the Sea
The Rastas and the Grenadian Revolution
Rasta, Ganja and Capitalism
Rastas in Trinidad
Rastas, Guyana and the Left
Conclusion
Chapter 7: The Rastafari Movement in the Metropole Part I: Rastas and the Decline of the African Liberation Support Committee
The Canadian Dimension
Part II: Rasta, the Black Worker, and the British Crisis
The Education System and the Growth of the Rastas
Rastas and the State: The Case of Birmingham
From the Shades of Grey to Cashmore's Rastaman
The Shades of Grey Report: Blacks, Rastas and the Prisons
Rata and the Challenge of Crisis
Rastafari Women
Whither Rasta? From Cultural Resistance to Organized Resistance
The New Cross Massacre and Uprisings
Conclusion
Chapter 8: Repatriation and Rastafari, the Ethiopian Revolution and the Settlement in Shashamane
Back to Africa
The Slaves and the Concept of Repatriation
The Sierra Leone Scheme
The Liberian Settlement
Marcus Garvey, Liberia, and Repatriation
Garveyism and Bilbo
Rastafari and Repatriation
The Shashamane Settlement and the Ethiopian Revolution
The Unfolding of the Revolution
Rastas, Repatriation and Africa
Conclusion: Rastafari: From Cultural Resistance to Cultural Liberation
