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Ras Charles Price (1963-), was born in New York City to parents of the American South and the West Indies. Ras Charles has spent a considerable number of his years in the American South, much of it working on farms in South Carolina and the eastern seaboard of the South. Currently, Ras Charles is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Ras Charles is especially interested in how individuals and groups form their identity, especially identification as Black, religious, or activist. Ras Charles is a student of social movements, community organizing and community development, oral and life history, action research, and the history and experience of the Rastafari of Jamaica. These are things that Ras Charles enjoys writing about. He has carried out research projects on these concerns and others in Jamaica and in several states in the United States of America. Ras Charles is deeply committed to social justice and the people who make it happen. For example, he has been active in the movement of welfare recipients for access to postsecondary education in the U.S., served as a member of the Rastafari Centralization Organization in Jamaica, and is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the venerable Highlander Research and Education Center (U.S.).