During the tumultuous 1990’s, Miles Corwin closely followed students and educators at Crenshaw High School as illustrated in his novel And Still We Rise. A pivotal first-person speaker he followed, Anita Moultrie, unfailingly demonstrated her discontent with the California state government. Corwin published the book in April of 2000, six years after the U.S. Department of Education conducted a comprehensive study on the progression of black students in primary education to the graduate level. The study found, on those levels, black students continue to close the vast gaps in education (Smith). Moultrie teaches her students to become aware of the racism that affected their daily lives. By the inclusion of Moultrie, Corwin consistently advocates…show more content… She utilizes pathos as to appeal to naive black students in the hope of inciting anger. By stating the words “‘judge them’”, she implies that non-minority people cannot see past the outside of existing as just a black student (Corwin 85). A reader can draw the conclusion that the world outside of the ‘hood daunts young black students in inner-city schools. By asserting this, she implies racism influences any white person, whether they know it or not; they harbour biases against young black students from an inner-city setting. Moultrie also later shares the sentiment that, “‘Racism is woven into... our country’” (Corwin 207). To illustrate her point, Moultrie personifies racism by stating, “‘woven’” which implies to a reader that the government has institutionalized racism (Corwin 207). In this act, it making it more difficult to her students cannot avoid it. To further this, she employs an accusatory tone, “‘Racism’” leading to a political diction (Corwin 207). Regarding that, the diction and tone combined illustrates an indirect characterization that she possesses a heightened social awareness of the effects of racism on her
