The Bible as Ideology: Ethiopianism in Jamaica 1930-38
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A view of the bible and Ethiopianism in Jamaica.
"We have now gone some way in seeing how Jamaican Ethiopianism as an ideology was capable of assimilating biblical and (pseudo-) historical material and fitting it into a structure the main purpose of which was to explain the role of the Negro race in the world of the 1930's. We have not yet explored the full dimensions of the identification of black people with the Jews of the Bible, which was mentioned earlier as one of the essential features of this ideology. For black people anywhere at any time who read the Bible the analogy between themselves and the children of Zion was of course plain --"
"We have now gone some way in seeing how Jamaican Ethiopianism as an ideology was capable of assimilating biblical and (pseudo-) historical material and fitting it into a structure the main purpose of which was to explain the role of the Negro race in the world of the 1930's. We have not yet explored the full dimensions of the identification of black people with the Jews of the Bible, which was mentioned earlier as one of the essential features of this ideology. For black people anywhere at any time who read the Bible the analogy between themselves and the children of Zion was of course plain --"
