Table of Contents: “…A Smart Way to View Rastafari -- Rastafari Literary Art -- Rastafari's Righteous Wail : From Reggae to Dub Poetry -- Benjamin Zephaniah : Postcolonial Performance Poet -- The Reel Rasta : Selected Documentary Films -- Artful Africans at Home and Abroad : Ghana and Japan -- Epilogue : Commodifying Rastafari.…”

Table of Contents: “…Colonization in reverse : an introduction -- "In the big city the sex life gone wild" : migration, gender, and identity in Sam Selvon's The lonely Londoners -- Black power in a transnational frame : radical populism and the Caribbean Artists Movement -- Behind the mask : carnival politics and British identity in Linton Kwesi Johnson's dub poetry -- Beyond imperial feminism : Buchi Emecheta's London novels and Black British women's emancipation -- Heritage politics of the soul : immigration and identity in Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses -- Genetics, biotechnology, and the future of "race" in Zadie Smith's White teeth -- Conclusion : "Step back from the blow back" : Asian hip-hop and post-9/11 Britain.…”
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