Rasta

Yet in adopting this oppositional belief system and alternative lifestyle, the Rastas faced severe social ostracism.

Second, the perceived lack of militancy on the part of Rastas may also indicate the extent to which Rastafari has become a familiar presence on Jamaica’s social scene.

Nadine Sutherland, a former Bob Marley protégé, a culture studies scholar and the daughter of a longtime Rasta, reflects on the global impact of Lauryn [Hill]’s image, particularly as it pertained to black women’s expressions of their sexuality: […]

“You know my boyfriend has divine dreads. He’s Rasta. And he speaks fluent Jamaican patois,” she ended proudly.

“You don’t hafi dread to be Rasta,” as the song by Morgan Heritage says. Many people who have Rasta leanings don’t always wear dreads but support the faith in other ways. Those who wear locks but aren’t Rasta are looked down on as imposters […]

When it comes to someone with dreadlocks, a range of such assumptions are made: he’s Jamaican, he’s Rasta, he plays reggae; […]