LGBT social movements

generated by this connection” (Baker, 2013). More generally, the interactions between nonprofit structures and existing capitalist economic structure seems to be that of replacing the former economic paradigms which sought to amass public funds for social services and the public good. Not only has marketization, and globalization, altered…

Pro-Life Activists: How Social Movement Mobilization Works, gives a different perspective of political activism. The main question is why do people join social movements, is it the fact that they genuinely care about the movement or do they do it for other reasons. In other words, do they have a belief or an idea about the movement before they join, or do they join for other reason? Munson uses the Pro life movement to explain his case that most people do not join movements because they have a…

Anne Moody’s “Coming to age in Mississippi” illustrates how the economic, and social injustices and fears that plagued her childhood in the rural south shaped her future as a leading advocate during the Civil Rights Movement. From her earliest memories Moody recognized the color of skin would dictate her finances. In the first chapter of her autobiography, moody describes the rickety shack her sharecropping family lived in when she was four, and how it “was up on the hill with Mr. Carters big…

Amaya and Federico Pino (2015) offer a slightly different lens on cruceño movement. Amaya and Federico Pino’s work could be interpreted as another story of lost hegemony, this time defining hegemony primarily in terms of development ideology. Nevertheless, this text breaks away from other interpretations as it conflates hegemony with development strategies. Instead of focusing on the indigenous/non-indigenous binary, Amaya and Federico Pino interpret hegemony as the two competing development…

Some authors (Tacitus, Ammianus), have described social revolts (Tacitus in the army, Ammianus in regular people). Tacitus doesn’t want to give voice to the rebels, he invents what could be their discourse in detail but for rhetorical purposes. However, he is more humane than Ammianus. Ammianus shows a…

The Civil Rights Movement was a time of utter chaos in American history. It was a period of protests and demonstrations against the racist policies that were governing the lives of African Americans. Alice Walker does a wonderful job of providing an up-close view of just how difficult this period was in her novel Meridian. This book shows the amount of unnecessary violence, segregation, and denial of rights towards African Americans that existed during that time. Meridian truly helps us to…

in the United States? The Black Lives Matter movement was founded on Twitter originally as the “#BlackLivesMatter” hashtag. This hashtag blew up all throughout not only Twitter, but other social media sites as well (Ransby…

J.r. Luther was a huge leader during the Civil Rights Movement who guided many well-known protests, sit-ins, and marches that aimed to end segregation and all it stood for. Protesting in a peaceful manner is more beneficial than violence because people don’t get hurt and change can happen more effectively. Peaceful protesting is good for humanity because it can cause a powerful change where nobody gets hurt. During the Civil Rights Movement a group of laws was created known as Jim Crow laws.…

evidently describes how the anti-war movement and the prevalence of media coverage induced the peoples’ determination for change through rebellion in 1968. Kurlansky begins his book by depicting the international aspiration for peace during 1968. The United Nations, France, and Spain were all hopeful that the year would bring serenity globally. Kurlansky then makes it evident that peace is far from obtainable during the course of this year. He discusses the anti-draft movement, the…

The rise of the Religious right was a movement to incorporate religion further into the average American lifestyle. It marked the period of a religious awakening in the United States, heavily influenced and marketed by the Evangelical Jerry Falwell and Ronald Reagan, amongst other celebrities and activists. Many of these activists were unhappy with American society progressing towards the left—specifically on issues of civil rights, education, and the family unit. They gained many supporters…