Social:Emancipation

Short description: Notion of attaining civil and political rights or equality

Emancipation is any effort to procure economic and social rights, political rights or equality, often for a specifically disenfranchised group, or more generally, in discussion of many matters. The term emancipation derives from ēmancĭpo/ēmancĭpatio (the act of liberating a child from parental authority) which in turn stems from ē manu capere ('capture from someone else's hand'). Among others, Karl Marx discussed political emancipation in his 1844 essay "On the Jewish Question", although often in addition to (or in contrast with) the term human emancipation. Marx's views of political emancipation in this work were summarized by one writer as entailing "equal status of individual citizens in relation to the state, equality before the law, regardless of religion, property, or other 'private' characteristics of individual people."

"Political emancipation" as a phrase is less common in modern usage, especially outside academic, foreign or activist contexts. However, similar concepts may be referred to by other terms. For instance, in the United States the Civil Rights Movement culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 can be seen as further realization of events such as the Emancipation Proclamation and abolition of slavery a century earlier. In the current and former British West Indies islands the holiday Emancipation Day is celebrated to mark the end of the Atlantic slave trade.

See also

• Abolitionism
• Catholic emancipation
• Dunmore's Proclamation
• Emancipation of minors
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia
• Emancipist
• Feminism
• Jewish emancipation
• Liberation (disambiguation)
• Manumission
• Political freedom
• Revolution (disambiguation)
• Self-determination
• Tanzimat
• Women's suffrage
• Youth rights

Further reading

• Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik Karl Marx as a Philosopher of Human Emancipation, translated by Dylan C. Stewart

External links

•  "Emancipation". New International Encyclopedia. 1905. 

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