Indledning
Racist symbols still haunt Black Americans several years after slavery was abolished in America on the 13th of December 1885.
Many Black Americans meet racist symbols in form of statues, bills, street names, flags, and even racial stereotypes on some brands’ packaging.
It has resulted in several protestsagainst systemic racial inequity and injustice have also reinvigorated passionate debate around the most obvious memorials to slavery, white supremacy, and racism across the United States.
The problem today is that only a few knowabout how minority communities were treated during the years prior to 1860 because the history of the white people is getting erased from the history books.
This essay will give an example of exactly this, through a rhetorical analysis of the article “Why racist symbols persist in America”, by the freelance journalist Alexandra Villarreal, which was published in The Guardian on the 30th of June 2020.
This essay will focus firstly, on the language and linguistic features of the article, secondly, the use of modes of persuasion by the author, and lastly, the argumentative features which the author uses to get her message across to the reader.
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Uddrag
When using Toulmin’s model of augmentation, one can argue that the main claim Alexandra Villarreal proposes is that American history and life is dominated by the white supremacists, who enslaved African Americans in 1860 through racist symbols.
The data she uses to justify her claim is that she has asked different professors in America both white and black about their subjective opinion of racist symbols.
The warrant she uses to support the data is that white Americans have shaped the country’s history, while enslaved people do not fit well into that narrative.
The history before slavery in 1860 almost get erased, because the discussion of what life was like in America before is being left out.
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