Deconstructing America Rhetorical Analysis

Everyday the future in America looks brighter for the issues dealing with race and identity. Brave souls are not letting racism, class discrimination, or sexism hold them back anymore. Furthermore, the fight for a balanced society that pushes for equality is on the horizon. As we close on an era, based on purely the skin of the person, we need to analyze the impacts of the Ethnicity paradigm and Class paradigm on politics of the 20th century. Race and Ethnicity are used interchangeable in everyday conversation, however; they are not the same.

Patrick Buchanan’s essay on the diverse demographics in modern America targets Conservatives and those skeptical about the benefits of diversity, and persuades those people that the pursuit of diversity and equality is self-destructive. Buchanan instills fear into his audience by referencing conflicts that occurred when people of different backgrounds and ideas diverged. Buchanan makes us feel insecure with our government by referencing past empires to prove our democracy will inevitably fail. Finally, by offering data and a logical explanation, Buchanan persuades us that diversity threatens the nationalism and unification that we value so dearly. Buchanan dissuades his audience from supporting diversity by instilling the common emotion of

The “unique faith, culture and civilization” they had planted in the American soil. After one culture pulls away others begin to form. Different races, cultures, traditions and languages begin to emerge. That is what Buchanan feared. And he begins to go on about how this is making America is a horrible and lesser nation making his essay that much more biased.

Finally, the author concludes, “... patriotism is partly taking pride in this unlikely ability to throw all of us together in a country that across its length and breadth is as different as a dozen countries, and still be able to call it by one name” (Quindlen, pg.6). This quote reinforces the idea that Americans are united against all odds because all of the Unites States is about as diverse as twelve countries and still, all these people show great patriotism in the United States. A close examination of this quote ultimately reveals the argument that Americans support each other against the odds since a country with such great racial barriers

American author, Mark Twain, in his tragedy, “Pudd 'nhead Wilson” portrays the dichotomy of lifestyles as racism saturates America. Twain demonstrates that discrimination against race has no basis, and is conjectured from predisposed prejudice. This racial bigotry is Twain’s purpose in writing the novel.

Logos, or logical appeals, imply the use of reasoning, and, moreover, it may be the most powerful strategy in the pocket of the author as his audience is more likely to believe in facts. In the article “People Like Us”, written by David Brooks, an American author and conservative political and cultural commentator for the New York Times, justifies that the United States is a fairly more homogeneous country, rather than diverse, by providing facts and approaching to his audience emotions, even though his ethos appeals are not the best. According to David Brooks, in “People Like Us”, Americans describe diversity today as racial integration, which is proven when an analysis is done on a 2000 census showing that both upper and middle class African Americans decided to live in their generally black neighborhoods” (63). The author uses a strong logos appeal by providing the results of the census:

First, Gravlee explains the cultural perception of race in the United States and how

The United States experienced an influx of immigrants between the 1890’s to the 1920’s. Immigrants entered the United States from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe. From these demographic shifts we can also see that there were changed in the United States attitudes towards recent immigrants. These attitudes are grounded in racialized notions of foreign peoples and African Americans. Nativist notions are set in ideas of whiteness and different factors make Eastern Europe and Southern Europe immigrants not quite white.

While the critique of ideologies of American exceptionalism are necessary to reflexively decouple nationalist myth from empirical analysis, the inverse alternative of conceiving of the United States as ontologically racist is also problematic. First, such a conceptualization has difficulty accounting for changes and variations in racial inequality and racial identities. While racial inequality has been an enduring reality throughout U.S. history, which groups suffer from racialized inequality, and the forms such inequality take, vary across time and space in ways that the notion of a singular underlying structure has difficulty grasping. In particular, in the case City College, the racialized status of Jews varied over time. As will be shown

The study of American literature and history must take into account the roles that race played in the history of the United States. Throughout history the viewpoints on race have been different. American Literature will take you through time and inform you on how certain people viewed race and that must be understood when studying literature and history because of the fact that the way we think in this era is different. Nowadays, Racism and ethnic discrimination in the United States is highly frowned upon, but back in history different races were discriminated as “good or bad” playing significant, historical roles.

The article, highlighted aspects of politics, ethnic and racial inequalities in the United States and as such I believe that the conflict theory best describes the problems. Crossman (2017) articulates “The Conflict theory states that tensions and conflicts arise when resources, status, and power are unevenly distributed between groups in society and that these conflicts become the engine for social change.” In simple terms, the conflict theory indicates that human behavior, in a social aspect, is a consequence of conflicts between competing groups. One of Mills (1956) most famous theories, the power elite, describes this

Solommon Yohannes October 5th, 2017 Sociology& 101 Mr. Woo Racial Inequality Viewed Through the Conflict Perspective Lens The racial inequality that we have in modern day blossomed from the historic oppression and comprehensive prejudice of minority groups. From the very beginning of “American” history, other groups of people who were not of European decent were discriminated against and treated inhumanely and without the smallest regard for their lives. Native American populations were decimated by diseases brought oversea by Europeans and forced from their ancestral lands by settlers to make room for their expanding populations.

Short Story Analysis: Everything That Rises Must Converge. Many of you may be familiar with the short story "Everything that Rises Must Converge" written by Flannery O 'Connor, weather if you read it in a college class or just for fun. In the short story "Everything that Rises Must Converge" O 'Connor depicts the Social problem of segregation during the post-Civil War time. In this essay I will be criticizing " Everything that Rises Must Converge" and will be reviewing the literary critic writing "Aligning the Psychological with the Theological: Doubling and Race in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction" written by Fowler, Doreen. I will be writing about the way O 'Connor depicts segregation in his short story "Everything that Rises Must Converge."

Fahad Albrahim Response 1: Review/Summary: “Whiteness as property” is an article written by Cheryl Harris, in which she addresses the subject of racial identity and property in the United States. Throughout the article, professor Harris attempts to explain how the concept of whiteness was initiated to become a form of racial identity, which evolved into a property widely protected in American law (page 1713). Harris tackles a number of facts that describe the roots of whiteness as property in American history at the expense of minorities such as Black and American natives (page 1709). Additionally, Harris describes how whiteness as property evolved to become seen as a racial privilege in which the whites gained more benefits, whether

We see how the leaders of this country, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, had prejudice thoughts about these two different ethnic groups, how prejudice was built into society and the