Essays about: "Black Liberation"

Found 5 essays containing the words Black Liberation.

1. 1. Breaking the Chains : The Relation between Race, Religion & Violence in Malcolm X’s Pursuit of Black Liberation

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Engelska

   Author : Hedil Al-Khishali; [2023]
   Keywords : Malcolm X; Civil Rights Movement; Nation of Islam; Black Liberation; Black Theology; Racial Identity; Race Relations; Social Justice; African American Activism; Autobiography of Malcolm X; Violence and Liberation; Identity Evolution; Ideological Evolution; Racial Violence; Islamic Teachings; Social and Political Agenda;

   Abstract : This essay aims to explore the complex interplay between race, religion, and violence as depicted in The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley. Through an exploration of Frantz Fanon's theories regarding recognition and violence, alongside James H. Cone’s concept of Black theology, the essay establishes a foundation for the analysis. READ MORE

3. 2. A Black woman's fight against oppression: Celie's transformation in the Color Purple

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Hanna Stark; [2023]
   Keywords : The Color Purple; Celie; feminism; oppression; gender traits; masculine femininity;

   Abstract : In the novel the Color Purple (1982), the author, Alice Walker, highlights the oppression African American women had to endure in the South, during the 1920s. It tells the story of the protagonist Celie's life, from being a sexual abused girl, to becoming an independent woman. READ MORE

4. 3. The Partisan Reporter : A study of the news reporting on the American race issue by Sven Öste, 1963-71

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

   Author : Oskar Brundin; [2021]
   Keywords : Transnational history; Swedish-American relations; Swedish-American history; Civil Rights history; American race issue.;

   Abstract : This thesis presents how the American race issue was depicted in Sweden during the 1960s until the early 1970s by studying the work of Sven Öste in Dagens Nyheter. Sven Öste was Dagens Nyheter’s Washington correspondent between 1963-1966 and 1968-1971, where he did prize winning reporting on the Vietnam war and covered the American race issue. READ MORE

5. 4. Afrofuturism and Generational Trauma in N. K. Jemisin‘s Broken Earth Trilogy

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Imogen Bagnall; [2021]
   Keywords : N. K. Jemisin; Afrofuturism; Trauma; Collective Memory; Science Fiction; Oppression;

   Abstract : N. K. Jemisin‘s Broken Earth Trilogy explores the methods and effects of systemic oppression. Orogenes are historically oppressed and dehumanised by the wider society of The Stillness. READ MORE

6. 5. A Product of Womanism: Shug Avery in Alice Walker's The Color Purple

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Anna Janusiewicz; [2014]
   Keywords : Feminism Black Feminism Alice Walker The Color Purple Shug Avery Womanism;

   Abstract : Feminism in the early 1980's in the United States revolved much around social and cultural matters such as sexual liberation, self- definition and self- realization for women. Derived from these ideas within feminism comes Alice Walker's Womanism, that is the writer's own definition of the strong and independent woman of color. READ MORE