In addition, white evangelicals often portrayed liberation theology as antithetical to evangelicalism and organized against it. In fact, as described by Robert Chao Romero’s essay in this volume, many liberation theologians in Latin America were and are evangelical. Contemporaneously, but independently, black liberation theology also emerged in the wake of the black power movement in the United States. This movement was sparked by the key texts of James Cone, Black Theology and Black Power (1969)