Wilmore is one of the leading figures in the scholarly study of African American religion in the United States as well as an early proponent of Black Theology. His experiences in the Italian campaign during World War II prompted him to become a minister as a means to address human cruelty. Wilmore has conducted extensive research on social ethics, African Americans in the Presbyterian Church, and ecumenism. His first book was The Secular Relevance of the Church (Westminster 1962). In his now-classic Black Religion and Black Radicalism: An Interpretation of the Religious History of Afro-American People (Orbis, second edition, 1983).…
Bright, D. A. (2010). Pioneering Women: Black Women as Senior Leaders in Traditionally White Community Colleges. George Washington University In this study, Debra Bright shared her work on the urgency of capturing the unique experiences, challenges, strategies, and triumphs of Black Women (African-American) who held senior level administrative positions (.i.e. dean, vice president, provost, or special assistant to the president) in five predominately White male community colleges.…
Sojouner Truth, “Aren’t I a Woman” which holds the powerful, strong-minded, gave a speech that gives African American a sense of relief that they are well longing for. At the same time, they are presented on the knowledge of how African American women are faced with discrimination and inequality in America. I will discuss Sojouner Truth’s use of personal experiences to educate the emotional response from her response, the repetition in to build her arguments of the inequality amongst African Americans, and her biblical resources to get Christians to really take a closer look on the world we live in today. Sojouner Truth spoke to the Women’s Convention she wanted to establish a connection with her audience that black women are targeted in a way as if they’re not capable to do anything. The idea that men think women are beneath them is very unacceptable.…
In our world today, we are taught many things that develop from the standpoint of religion. Elizabeth Johnson, a Roman Catholic feminist theologian wrote many well-known books that discuss an over view of topics that arise in theology and religion. Johnson wrote Quest for the Living God in 2007, she discusses in chapter 5; God Acting Womanish which goes into depth about female language in relation with God. Today, many people describe their faith and religion with certain language portraying the word of God and the specific gender identity that is made in relation. As people find out more information about the creator, we start to question certain behaviors and identities that had once told us.…
As the month of December hits, many people cannot wait for the mess of a year 2016 to be over. There have been many shocking debuts this past year, the most recent, the end of the election where the Electoral College votes were in the favor of Republican candidate Donald Trump. Once that information was released, panic ensued for many people, but this is not the only moment of panic that has occurred this year. In February, the one and only, Beyoncé Knowles, released her new single, “Formation”, which stirred up the pot of moral panic in the music industry. Her new hit single was filled with messages of pride as she willfully sings about her her identity and how she is very proud of it.…
Paper 6 In his book The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, author Khalil Gibran Muhammad works to answer a series of questions surrounding the “statistical link between blackness and criminality” (1), focusing on the core historical actors and the circumstances that were constructed to allow for the current reality that while African-Americans make up 12 percent of the general population, they make up 30 percent of the prison population (4). The issue becomes less about whether or not the committed crimes are real, but more about how the concept of Blackness historically became intrinsically linked with criminal behavior– so much so that criminality is undeniably linked with the image of the Black…
Although the term had only started to be discussed in scholarly sociological circles in the early 70’s, the concept and ideas behind intersectionality, or how various categories of oppression work together, were around without a name for a very long time. In particular, it pervaded the work of black women writers from Zora Neale Hurston of the Harlem Renaissance to Nikki Giovanni and Carolyn Rodgers during the Black Nationalism and Black Arts Movements. Black women have the unique experience of being on the lower rungs of not one, but two categories of oppression: race and gender. It was within these intersections of race and gender as well as the Black Power Movement that birthed a concept called “New Black Womanhood”. Mostly used by revolutionary…
Women are handicapped by institutional challenges in the first and second stages of the candidate emergence process. Recruitment is one of the many institutional challenges handicapping women when considering and making a bid for political office. Recruitment is a major institutional factor that handicaps women in the first stage of the candidate emergence process because women who are not encouraged and recruited to run are less likely to run, and unlike men, women need to be in contact with women’s organizations to increase the likelihood that they will be recruited to run. Women are significantly less likely to have received encouragement to run for office by electoral gatekeepers. In a 2008 survey of men and women in the Candidate Eligibility…
Today’s Black Woman: Stereotypically Black For as long as i have been alive I have seen people do what the see. Most humans are incapable or refuse to do their own things or have an original thought. Television of today plays a key role in the society of today. It has the power to change minds create peace or chaos and deliver a message.…
I agree with you in regards to your statement that change of power in Black women is really hard to achieve. According to Combahee River Collective Statement, there are no other progressive movement has ever think about prioritizing the oppression that Black women are facing. In addition, they also said that nobody worked seriously to end that oppression. In this case, the Black women are the only one who can end their oppression, but it takes a lot of work for them especially if they do not have anyone to rely on. As what you said, Black feminists are fighting to end both oppression, which is somewhat hard to accomplish.…
significant (p = .06); no such variations existed between the other clusters. Potential differences in sexual orientation, socioeconomic status (i.e., level of education obtained), and religion/spirituality based on cluster membership were explored using cross tabulation of frequencies and the Pearson chi-square statistic (i.e., dependent variable - gendered racial identity clusters; independent variable -demographic characteristics). Though there were relative differences in educational attainment between clusters, these differences were not significant. No other significant differences were identified. Qualitative Analysis of Blackness, Womanhood, and Black Womanhood…
Feminism fought for suffrage rights for white women, but never got involved in the civil rights movement to help guarantee black women social equality. So womanism looks out not only for women but also for the rights of women of color, who are sometimes a step behind white woman when it comes to social equality. Alice Walker in her first collection of non-fiction “In Search of our Mother’s Gardens: Womanist prose”, referred primarily to African-American women, but also for women in general. In her own words, she says: “A womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.”…
Black feminist thought can be thought of as an understanding behind the intersectionality of race and sex. The assumption that race and sex can be divorced and examined separately prevents many people from grasping the concept of black feminist thought. African-American women are a part of a minority race and minority sex, which they must live with on a daily basis. Therefore, examining race and sex separately is a distorted, biased, and inaccurate view on African-American women in society. As a member of the two of the lowest castes in American society, being a woman and being black, African-American women are often marginalized.…
The evidence of gender equality is overwhelming throughout many religions. Many religions have a history of valuing men over women. Christianity and Islamic faiths are religions predominantly constructed by and for men. Women play a very small role in the forming of both religions and that tends to show in the practices and customs of the religions today. Women struggle to find a place in a religion for men without giving up ideas formed in a changing society.…
Throughout history the role of women has been the same across many religions. Outside of people of color, women are the second most oppressed and marginalized group of people. Because many of these religions are believed to be rooted in patriarchal norms, they have really strict views on what the role of women should be. It is through the use of religion that allows the male dominated society to create and place women in these gender specific roles. However, history has shown some efforts from women of all ethnicities fight to obtain equality in their religions and in society period.…