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Unit 7
Grades 11-12
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Rastafari's Answer to the Color Ladder

Rastafari, which emerged in Jamaica in the 1930s, is often taught primarily as a religious movement centered on the divinity of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I. It is that — but it also developed as a direct ideological rejection of the brown-middle-class color hierarchy…

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