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How to say Babylon : a memoir /

Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside the...

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Main Author:	Sinclair, Safiya (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : 37Ink/Simon & Schuster, [2023].
Subjects:	Sinclair, Safiya. African American women authors > 21st century > Biography. Fathers and daughters. Jamaicans > Biography. Rastafarians > Biography. Women college teachers > United States > Biography. Women poets, American > Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.

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