Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Vivaldi Jean-Marie, whose book An Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and Consciousness was published with Columbia University Press this September. You can read our excerpt of the book here. Get to Know Vivaldi Vivaldi Jean-Marie teaches in the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department at ...