The development of a specifically black British variant of Rastafarianism, the diffusion of Rasta ideas, symbols and motifs in the ghetto culture of British cities and the emergence of a specifically British reggae and Afro-Caribbean musical culture—startling a cultural development as it is—is nevertheless itself part of a wider process: the formation of a black counter-culture of resistance among second and third-generation blacks in Britain. This “resistance” culture has come—as Rastafarianism