I think it is interesting how the audience mostly knew about African American men being killed by the police and not African American women. I agree with you that women are being against discriminated. In fact, I […]
I respectfully disagree with you when you said she goes “of the rails” and that she assumes that police does not care of black women. I think you overlooked the purpose of her speech. She clearly provided evidence […]
In the video “The Urgency of Intersectionality,” Kimberle Crenshaw discusses the intersection of racism and sexism which often overlap in order to create different levels of social problems. She presents a spe […]
I agree with you and Tyara. Hooks does a very well job at analyzing how the female body was presented or portrayed. Hooks mentions how black females are portrayed with power and strength. However, she does mention […]
I agree that that is Hooks’ thesis. I also agree that Lemonade does have some positive depiction of black women however, it does fail when it stereotypes that black females or females in general respond to a man’s […]
In Moving Beyond Pain, the author analyzes the music video of Lemonade by Beyonce. The author mentions that in Lemonade the female black body is poised as royalty, as they are the center of attention in the music […]
I also found Christopher Lebron’s review of the movie ‘Black Panther’ very shocking because out of what I heard from close friends, the movie was a great movie that empowered the black community. However, after […]
I also found the quote “Even in a comic-book movie, black American men are relegated to the lowest rung of political regard,” to be interesting. I feel like based on reading this article, the movie ‘Black Pan […]
I also found the portrayal of Erik Killmonger very interesting. I like how you relate it to the the Black Lives Matter Movement. The movie “Black Panther” definitely took advantage of this movement and used it […]
Although I have never seen the movie ‘Black Panther,’ after reading this article by Christopher Lebron, this movie sounds very offensive. He describes how the movie can be misinterpreted as promoting black emp […]
This quote surprised me. I have always thought that teachers will always want the best for the students and James Baldwin made me realize that that is not always the case. People of color have always been taught […]
I definitely agree! Baldwin mentions how when people of color were forced into this country while chained to each other, they were not from the same areas of the world. They spoke different native languages and […]
In “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What is?”, James Baldwin discusses the importance of language. He discusses that every person has a common language in which they articulate. Through these […]
Great summary! You were very thorough on what a rhetorical situation is and the elements it consists of. I did not really understand when Bitzer states “Rhetorical discourse is called into existence by the s […]
I also was confused when I first saw the title. I did not have a clue on what it meant for a situation to be rhetoric. At first the passage was very unclear and confusing and then it became clearer. You explained […]
In “The Rhetorical Situation” by Lloyd F. Bitzer, he discusses what a rhetorical situation is and the elements of a rhetorical situation. He states that a rhetorical situation “comes into existence for the sake […]