Rhetorical Analysis of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration
Michelle Alexander is an African American civil rights activist, Ohio state law professor, and legality lawyer, who has written the famous novel, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness in 2010 which emphasizes the ongoing civil rights issues being had within African American communities and law enforcement. Michelle uses several rhetorical devices within the chapter “The Rebirth of Caste” to provide evidence as to how racism is still prevalent within the United States of America without intentionally noticing it’s there. Through the use of quotations from historical sources, ethos, pathos, and logos and a timeline of how racism and white supremacy …show more content…
Alexander begins as far back as to when indentured servitude was as a sense the beginning of slavery, explaining how the growth of commercial farming of cotton and tobacco started a widespread epidemic for the need of cheap labor and therefore slavery came to be. Furthermore, Michelle begins to develop ideas around how American Indians where seen as savages to whites and seen as a threat in numbers while Africans were a continent away and didn’t interfere with voluntary immigration.
Farther into the chapter, Michelle describes the social and political structure of slavery and how it has developed over the course of several decades through the use of the Three-Fifths rule and The Civil War, to the point of Jim Crow and to the state of American today with bias of criminal propensities towards African …show more content…
Logos is her primary focus within the chapter, giving the audience a general view of how slavery and discrimination has advanced through history to the point of where discrimination stands today. In addition, Alexander blends the three together which provides the reader with a vast assortment of emotions, thinking, and perception over the issue of civil rights. Ethos is the second focus within the chapter, the word choice that’s chosen gives the author an educated impression while providing direct information to the audience. Additionally, through the use of sub-headers, allows for quick progression through the chapters while giving the audience a sense in the permanency of civil rights in the United States. Pathos was the least used focus of the three within the chapter, providing no real emotion from her own point of view within the text. Rather, she used several different sources and historical text to provide different emotional feelings over different subject such as the Klu Klux Klan and the beatings of NAACP leaders
Michelle Alexander is an African American civil rights activist, Ohio state law professor, and legality lawyer, who has written the famous novel, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness in 2010 which emphasizes the ongoing civil rights issues being had within African American communities and law enforcement. Michelle uses several rhetorical devices within the chapter “The Rebirth of Caste” to provide evidence as to how racism is still prevalent within the United States of America without intentionally noticing it’s there. Through the use of quotations from historical sources, ethos, pathos, and logos and a timeline of how racism and white supremacy …show more content…
Alexander begins as far back as to when indentured servitude was as a sense the beginning of slavery, explaining how the growth of commercial farming of cotton and tobacco started a widespread epidemic for the need of cheap labor and therefore slavery came to be. Furthermore, Michelle begins to develop ideas around how American Indians where seen as savages to whites and seen as a threat in numbers while Africans were a continent away and didn’t interfere with voluntary immigration.
Farther into the chapter, Michelle describes the social and political structure of slavery and how it has developed over the course of several decades through the use of the Three-Fifths rule and The Civil War, to the point of Jim Crow and to the state of American today with bias of criminal propensities towards African …show more content…
Logos is her primary focus within the chapter, giving the audience a general view of how slavery and discrimination has advanced through history to the point of where discrimination stands today. In addition, Alexander blends the three together which provides the reader with a vast assortment of emotions, thinking, and perception over the issue of civil rights. Ethos is the second focus within the chapter, the word choice that’s chosen gives the author an educated impression while providing direct information to the audience. Additionally, through the use of sub-headers, allows for quick progression through the chapters while giving the audience a sense in the permanency of civil rights in the United States. Pathos was the least used focus of the three within the chapter, providing no real emotion from her own point of view within the text. Rather, she used several different sources and historical text to provide different emotional feelings over different subject such as the Klu Klux Klan and the beatings of NAACP leaders