Rhetorical Analysis

The topic of racism revolves around America and it is always a prevalent discussion.
Both articles, “Thinking About What We See: Using Media Literacy to Examine Images of African Americans on Television” by Paula Tosi and “Hollywood is Kinda Racist—Reality Check, So is America ” by Britni Danielle argue on the topic of racism within one specific corporation, Hollywood. The article by Paul Tosi claims that Hollywood is, in fact, taking racist actions and due to those actions, negative stereotypes are formed, however, the purpose of the article by Britni Danielle is to convey that Hollywood’s actions should not be taken to out of proportion because it is improving and there are greater racist actions occurring in our country than a white film. …show more content…
Both authors manage to convey their ideas by stating their credibility, providing supporting and convincing facts, and appealing to the readers through their emotions, but the article that uses these rhetorical strategies most effectively is the article by Paula Tosi.
In an article, the author should establish their credibility. Paula Tosi, a middle school teacher and a doctoral student at Northern Illinois University establishes her credibility by disclosing a personal experience. Tosi describes how as a teacher one of her activities is the “getting to know me” where children bring in an artifact of importance to them to demonstrate how diverse they are and through this activity she has …show more content…
Tosi provides the study of T.E. Ford, a psychologist, in which he examined the effects of stereotypical television portrayals and he found that when an individual was shown “African Americans in stereotypical roles, they were more likely to make a negative judgment of an African American” (Tosi,2011). By providing this fact, Tosi conveys how Hollywood usually focuses on portraying a stereotypical African American, causing the flame of racist, stereotypical views of African Americans to remain ignited. Conversely, in her article, Danielle emphasis that a film with mostly white actors is not as important as racist killings. In this case, Danielle provides the facts of past killings caused by police, such as Michael Brown and Eric Garner (Danielle,2014). By providing this evidence, Danielle is stressing that a make-believe situation is not as horrible than that of a real-life murder. While Danielle gives the reader a different perspective of racism and demonstrates how one is more malicious than the other, Tosi provides a study done by a psychologist that focused on children, which is another subject that captures the reader's attention because we all may have siblings or young relatives and maybe one day have our own. Because of this study and its information, Tosi conveys the importance of why there should be more racial diversity in films and I think it is especially more

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