Racism is a huge problem that faces the American society today. Racial segregation is an important case for a lot of people but not all of them on the same side of this. For example, Florence Wagman Roisman, an associate professor at the Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis, who is against racial segregation and expresses her opinion in her article “Is Integration Possible? Of Course …,” in Poverty and Race, January/February 2000. On the other side of this case supporting racial segregation is Samuel Francis ,An iconoclastic anti-capitalist columnist, wrote the article “NAACP Recognizes Integration’s Failure” in the Conservative Chronicle, July 23, 1997, This paper intends to prove that Roisman uses more rhetoric tools and more effectively to make her argument convincing. She uses ethos to prove racial separation is unacceptable, logos to prove segregation is inconsistent with civil democracy and pathos to prove that by segregation people would miss the opportunities of great discoveries.
Roisman uses logos to prove segregation is inconsistent with civil democracy. She argues that everyone should be equal in rights and duties .people should not be judged by their ancestor’s skin because that is against everything the American Constitution stand for. She referenced to American constitution as she has a law degree and addressing people with higher knowledge of the American constitution. Her point appears stronger compared to Francis’s who was suggesting that failure of integration is because the racial consciousness. He argues that racial consciousness started to emerge in last generation, which made it difficult for people to be coherent with others because they believe that is how their racial pride is demeaned. Franci...
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... the issue to it. Finally, Roisman has a more academic way of writing which is more appealing for the people.
At the end, I believe that Roisman’s article “Is Integration Possible? Of Course …,” is more persuasive than Samuel Francis’s ““NAACP Recognizes Integration’s Failure” because she uses rhetorical tools more effectively to convey her point. Firstly, Roisman uses ethos in an effective way to convince the readers unlike Francis who failed in integrating text and did not use credible enough sources. Secondly, Roisman uses logos to prove segregation is inconsistent with civil democracy and her point was stronger than Francis’s who was arguing that failure of integration is because of racial pride and consciousness. Finally, Roisman uses pathos to sway the readers to her case unlike Francis who did not use it all which can convey the wrong understanding for it.
Making Whiteness: the culture of segregation in the south, 1890-1940 is the work of Grace Elizabeth Hale. In her work, she explains the culture of the time between 1890 and 1940. In her book she unravels how the creation of the ‘whiteness’ of white Southerners created the ‘blackness’ identity of southern African Americans. At first read it is difficult to comprehend her use of the term ‘whiteness’, but upon completion of reading her work, notes included, makes sense. She states that racial identities today have been shaped by segregation, “...the Civil War not only freed the slaves, it freed American racism
...isely. This book has been extremely influential in the world of academia and the thinking on the subject of segregation and race relations in both the North and the South, but more importantly, it has influenced race relations in practice since it was first published. However, Woodward’s work is not all perfect. Although he does present his case thoroughly, he fails to mention the Negroes specifically as often as he might have. He more often relies on actions taken by whites as his main body of evidence, often totally leaving out the actions that may have been taken by the black community as a reaction to the whites’ segregationist policies.
Racism is against equality, divides unions and promotes stratification. The differences that humans have created between race are some of the causes of America's division. From thousands of years ago, racial injustice has meant oppression for Hispanics, Asians, and blacks primarily. Although racism is not as visible nowadays, it still exists, but it is more subtle, which means that sometimes it is difficult to identify an action that has a discriminatory purpose. In the article “The Great White Way” by Debra J. Dickerson, she presents the impact that race has in America, and emphasizes the real purpose of having the “whiteness” status. Similarly, in the letter to his teenage son called “Between The World And Me” written by Ta-nehisi Coates,
“The New Jim Crow” is an article by Michelle Alexander, published by the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law. Michelle is a professor at the Ohio State Moritz college of criminal law as well as a civil rights advocate. Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law is part of the world’s top education system, is accredited by the American Bar Association, and is a long-time member of the American Law association. The goal of “The New Jim Crow” is to inform the public about the issues of race in our country, especially our legal system. The article is written in plain English, so the common person can fully understand it, but it also remains very professional. Throughout the article, Alexander provides factual information about racial issues in our country. She relates them back to the Jim Crow era and explains how the large social problem affects individual lives of people of color all over the country. By doing this, Alexander appeals to the reader’s ethos, logos, and pathos, forming a persuasive essay that shifts the understanding and opinions of all readers.
Here McGary focuses on two conflicting approaches to racial discrimination which is used as solutions, being the “racial separatist approach” and “racial integration approach” and he compares and contrasts these two approaches but not to choose which is better than the other. In section ‘I’ he explains how some African-American leaders such as Malcolm X, Edward W. Blyden and many more, advocated racial separatism as a way to solving race related issues. They feel by keeping the races separate, one will be aware and have pride of their culture. In section ”II” the author explains some social, economic, etc. arguments that separatist may make and shuts them down by stating the arguments flaws and trying to come up with a better solution . In section ‘III’ he speaks specifically about culture and how separatists define the word “culture” which they often switch the words with ethnicity and race. He also talkes about self esteem and respect.In section ‘IV’McGary speaks about the inegrationist wich include Federick Douglas, Martin Luther Kig,Jr., plus many others. He states that integrationists reject the black separatist point of views when it comes to white racism. They feel separatism is immoral. He then states that the term “integration” can not be defined. He states ‘integration allows for the coexistence of racial identities within a single socioeconomic framework”.In section
“Simple Justice” was written by Richard Kluger and reviews the history of Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court decision that outlawed segregation, and African America’s century-long struggle for equality under law. It began with the inequities of slavery to freedom bells to the forcing of integration in schools and the roots of laws with affect on African Americans. This story reveals the hate caused the disparagement of African Americans in America over three hundred years. I learned how African Americans were ultimately acknowledged by their simple justice. The American version of the holocaust was presented in the story. In 1954 the different between how segregation and slavery were not in fashion when compared with dishonesty of how educating African American are separate from Caucasian was justified by the various branches of government.
The Strange Career of Jim Crow, by C. Van Woodward, traces the history of race relations in the United States from the mid and late nineteenth century through the twentieth century. In doing so Woodward brings to light significant aspects of Reconstruction that remain unknown to many today. He argues that the races were not as separate many people believe until the Jim Crow laws. To set up such an argument, Woodward first outlines the relationship between Southern and Northern whites, and African Americans during the nineteenth century. He then breaks down the details of the injustice brought about by the Jim Crow laws, and outlines the transformation in American society from discrimination to Civil Rights. Woodward’s argument is very persuasive because he uses specific evidence to support his opinions and to connect his ideas. Considering the time period in which the book and its editions were written, it should be praised for its insight into and analysis of the most important social issue in American history.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott can be viewed as a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement as a whole, as neither one’s success was due solely to the work of the political system; a transformation in the consciousness of America was the most impactful success of both. Passionate racism ran in the veins of 1950s America, primarily in the south, and no integration law would influence the widespread belief that African Americans were the same level of human as Caucasians. The abolition of racism as a political norm had to start with a unanimous belief among blacks that they had power as American citizens; once they believed that to be true, there was no limit to the successes they could see.
concerns racial equality in America. The myth of the “Melting Pot” is a farce within American society, which hinders Americans from facing societal equality issues at hand. Only when America decides to face the truth, that society is not equal, and delve into the reasons why such equality is a dream instead of reality. Will society be able to tackle suc...
This week’s reading is from Jack Greenburg’s “Crusaders in the Courts: Legal Battles of the Civil Rights Movement”. Chapter 12 “The School Segregation Cases and Our Cast of Characters” discusses the formation of the Legal Defense Fund and the NAACP as two separate institutions caused by concepts of professionalism outlined by ?, like money, autonomy, strain, and a structural hierarchy, similar to the transformation of other professions. This chapter also outlines the fight against segregation as a top-down strategy of legal realism (CITE) where law serves as a catalyst for change. These concepts and the key players in this fight were also outlined in the documentary viewed in class, The Road to Brown. These institutional actors, much like
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Before any steps could be taken for the equality of human kind, we had the tackle the idea of intergrationism. This time is often referred to as the Nadir of American Race Relations, which simply put means that racism was at its worst during the time period of the Civil Rights Movement. Pulling together for equality proved to be a grueling task for Americans. In order to move into the future, one must let go of the past, and many people were not eager to abandon the beliefs that had been engrained in them since birth. Racial discrimination was present nationwide but the outrageous violence of African Americans in southern states became know as Jim Crow Laws.
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