Shamara Wyllie Alhassan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1064795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shamara Wyllie Alhassan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shamara Wyllie |
| FAMILY NAME | Alhassan |
| SIGNATURE | ALHASSAN S W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9092-2249 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Words Made Flesh
The first sustained treatment of religion and religions in the scholarship of a prominent Caribbean thinker Sylvia Wynter is a profoundly transdisciplinary scholar whose works span an impressive array of theory, literature, science, anthropology, philosophy, and religious studies as well as different forms, including essays, plays, a novel, and a 935-page unpublished manuscript entitled “Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World.” Whatever…
Words Made Flesh
Rastafari
Jah Kingdom
Using archival, ethnographic, and oral historical sources in her first full-length manuscript, Monique Bedasse writes a compelling intellectual and political history of Rastafari repatriation and P
We Stand for Black Livity
Rastafari is a Pan-African socio-spiritual movement and way of life that was created by indigent Black people in the grip of British colonialism in 1930s Jamaica. Although Rastafari is often studied as a Jamaican phenomenon, I center the ways the movement has articulated itself in the Ghanaian polity. Ghana has become the epicenter of the movement on the continent through its representatives' leadership in the Rastafari Continental Council. Based…
Caribbean Spaces
Reviewed by: Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones by Carole Boyce Davies Shamara Wyllie Alhassan (bio) Davies, Carole Boyce. Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2013. In Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones, Carole Boyce Davies engages critical geography, autobiography, and the radical imaginary to analyze the ways women take, make, and shape Caribbean cultural cartographies. Davies goes beyon…
We Stand for Black Livity
Rastafari is a Pan-African socio-spiritual movement and way of life that was created by indigent Black people in the grip of British colonialism in 1930s Jamaica. Although Rastafari is often studied as a Jamaican phenomenon, I center the ways the movement has articulated itself in the Ghanaian polity. Ghana has become the epicenter of the movement on the continent through its representatives' leadership in the Rastafari Continental Council. Based…
Caribbean Spaces
Reviewed by: Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones by Carole Boyce Davies Shamara Wyllie Alhassan (bio) Davies, Carole Boyce. Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2013. In Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones, Carole Boyce Davies engages critical geography, autobiography, and the radical imaginary to analyze the ways women take, make, and shape Caribbean cultural cartographies. Davies goes beyon…
We Stand for Black Livity
Rastafari is a Pan-African socio-spiritual movement and way of life that was created by indigent Black people in the grip of British colonialism in 1930s Jamaica. Although Rastafari is often studied as a Jamaican phenomenon, I center the ways the movement has articulated itself in the Ghanaian polity. Ghana has become the epicenter of the movement on the continent through its representatives' leadership in the Rastafari Continental Council. Based…
Jah Kingdom
Using archival, ethnographic, and oral historical sources in her first full-length manuscript, Monique Bedasse writes a compelling intellectual and political history of Rastafari repatriation and P
Words Made Flesh
The first sustained treatment of religion and religions in the scholarship of a prominent Caribbean thinker Sylvia Wynter is a profoundly transdisciplinary scholar whose works span an impressive array of theory, literature, science, anthropology, philosophy, and religious studies as well as different forms, including essays, plays, a novel, and a 935-page unpublished manuscript entitled “Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World.” Whatever…
Words Made Flesh
Rastafari
Caribbean history, culture, and politics (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)