Palestine Liberation Front

Alice Walker’s Meridian is a historical novel covering much of the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-to-late twentieth century, and although much of the novel is focused on societal conditions regarding race relations, Walker also explores sexual relations in place at the time. Sexual politics play a key role in setting the foundation of Walker’s argument, and is staged through her use of characterization, especially with regards to Meridian and Truman. These characterizations also shape an…

Later he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. His parents were priest/priestess of the religion Santeria. He refers to himself as a Southern Baptist, Roman Catholic child of Ellequa. De La Torre field of studies are: Social ethics, Theology of Liberation, Latinx Religiosity, and Santeria. De La Torres,’ Alma mater: is the Temple University, where he continued his theological training and obtained a doctorate in social ethics in 1999. De La Torre is known as a Scholar-activist whose work…

became the first state to remove consensual sodomy from its criminal code (Canaday, 2008), but others were resistant to change. Activism soared and organizations such as the Gay Liberation Front and Gay Activists Alliance emerged with civil rights, humanity, and dignity as their main goals (Cornell, 2006). The gay liberation movement spread through-out the United States and out of these advocacy organizations, others were established that sought reformism, equality, and health education due to…

Womanist Theology Essay Introduction Womanist theology is socio-religious which respond to a social state of intensified and fortified oppression similar to the history of slavery. It is a social theory rooted in the racial and gender oppression of black women living in the cave. There are various interpretations of what the womanist theology efforts to provide a means and a concise and all encompassing definition have been marginally successful. Womanist theological is of observance…

tool of oppression, he also disagrees and claims religion as a potential tool of liberation. To achieve liberation humanity needs to: be set free from the material; change corrupt political systems; end an oppressed consciousness; and move towards freedom from self-centeredness. For Gutiérrez salvation is liberation, and God’s first salvific act is creation. Gutiérrez explains that liberation in the context of liberation theology is the “complete communion of human beings with God and among…

of his book, James Cone discusses the meaning of liberation from the point of view of a Black theologist. He starts off by explaining how Jesus Christ is the ground of human liberation, reason for which there is no liberation without Christ. He depicts liberation as a divine gift of freedom to those who struggle in faith against oppression, rejecting the idea of liberation as a human possession. The second point that Cone makes regards liberation as freedom being in relation to God. He talks…

What initially seemed to be a regular police raid on a random June night in 1969 turned into riots lasting several evenings, with an impact that would continue to this day. Often people divide the history of the United States’ gay rights movement into two epochs- “before Stonewall” and “after Stonewall”. Accordingly, this distinction illustrates the Stonewall Riots’ individual importance for gay rights even as it was not the first event to highlight the injustices of homophobia. Despite its…

after the riots. Stonewall changed the way people say people of the LGBTQ community and pushed the fight for equality forward. While the fight for equality was a group effort the one of the main person who lead the community into the new age of gay liberation was Marsha P. Johnson. Marsha P. Johnson was a transgender activist born in the early years of generation X and was the first one to throw a brick at stonewall. Before Stonewall and Marsha P. Johnson gay people were scared to even admit…

discontentment came with the women’s liberation movement. In not only the SDS but also various racial movements, women spoke up about the failings of the movements to satisfyingly deliver equality for them as well. Male SDS members notably targeted their female comrades’ statements on equality with gendered slurs in 1965 and published their statements alongside an infantilising cartoon 2 years later. This statement, so cruelly framed, introduced key phrases such as “women’s liberation” and “male…

History of United States is full of ups and downs. So many good things happened that improved the future of of the whole nation, but we cannot forget about the dark side. Wars, gender inequality, and racial discrimination make up the majority of negative aspects. People who are oppressed, abused, and minority look for escapes from their misery. One of those last resorts is religion. Since I am an immigrant who became a citizen, I would use this research paper as an opportunity to look back at…