A rhetoric situation consists of an article’s context, which equally helps in revealing the article’s target audience, issues, and constraints. Consequently, an article’s convincing power vastly depends on the author’s persuasive techniques and strategies, which help in establishing a robust rhetoric situation towards the target audience. ‘All Black Lives Matter: The Creation of an Intersectional Movement’ is an article by Katie Hinchey, which was published in the ‘Serendip Studio website’ in 2014. The article displays various kinds of persuasiveness and aggressiveness in convincing the audience about the weaknesses and strengths of various movements that advocate for racial equality, and the role of women groups in the motivation of various intersectional leaders. The author, therefore, presents her purpose towards the target audience (which includes enlightening intersectional leaders on the impending controversies of racial inequality) by employing various persuasive tools such as women’s NYLON magazine, a demonstration of a boat and an ice bag, quotes, and a map.
Hinchey is a female advocate against groups that propagate racism, discrimination, and various forms of inequalities against blacks, including women. Therefore, Hinchey’s purpose involves mitigating the permeability of racism in America, which propagates through various intersectional ties (par. 1). Additionally, the author’s purpose includes motivating advocates of racial equality by analyzing Black-American female leaders, in order to restore effective interactions between advocates of racial equalities. Hinchey equally seeks to establish a racist-free America through mobilization of intersectional leaders towards mitigating the weaknesses of their groups (par. 3).
Consequently, in order to eradicate the prevalence of Black racism in America, Hinchey directs her article to a particular audience. She addresses various individuals, cultural, institutional, and legal propagators of Black racism in America through various intersectional ties such as gender (Hinchey par. 5). Consequently, she addresses intersectional leaders and directs them towards establishing a strong system through emulating the efforts of feminist leaders such as MAU leaders, in order to eradicate the prevalence of racism in America (Hinchey par. 2). (“Through an analysis of emerging Black female leaders all across the country, I will argue that the other leaders of the movements could benefit greatly from a more complex lens”). Additionally, the author mentions, “one of the grassroots organizations that has catapulted to the forefront of the movement, Millennial Activists United is run primarily by women” (Hinchey par. 16). Therefore, she directs the Blacks experiencing the extremes of racism, oppression, and patriarchy to speak out in advocacy of their rights in order to stop racial segregation in America.
Hinchey’s text, in order to motivate intersectional leaders bases her article on a certain context, which depicts a series of factors that surround the occurrence of racism in America. America’s legal system or government, culture, institutions, and individuals, which define the existence of intersectional ties, pose as crucial factors that surround the occurrence of Black racism in America (par. 6). The factors’ level of prevalence implies a great impact towards Black-racism occurrence in America. Consequently, an outlook of the place and period of Hinchey’s text on Black racism is relevant.
Hinchey wrote the text – ‘all Black Lives Matter’ in America in 2014, a period where the country was on the verge of experiencing and propagating various instances of racism, in order to enlighten intersectional leaders to act against Blacks inequality (par. 15). America’s legal system, culture, institutions, and individuals permeated a series of racial instances to the Blacks, which resulted to a formation of various intersectional movements such as MAU (Millennial Activists United) that struggled to eradicate the prevalence of racism (Hinchey par. 9).
‘All Black Lives Matter’ belongs to the non-fiction genre of articles, which is a convincing strategy that the author employs to establish an optimistic belief about the audience’s role towards establishing a racist-free America (Hinchey par.11). Additionally, the author seeks to convince the audience by displaying incidental success of various feministic groups in order for them to emulate the necessary strategies that they employ in the event of advocating for their rights. Furthermore, Hinchey unveils her beliefs regarding the possibility of realizing a racist-free America through the stakeholders’ hands (par. 13).
Therefore, Hinchey applies various strategies in order to convince the audience on their role on the mitigation of Black racism in America, and the level of prevalence of Black racism. Consequently, she uses segmentations from various magazines such as the NYLON magazine to imply women’s part in the struggle to end Black racism (Hinchey par. 2). Additionally, Hinchey uses a map that informs on the individuals’ opinions regarding the hand of America’s legal system on Blacks racism, in order to convince intersectional group leaders about the permeability of the issue (par. 6). She equally uses a boat and ice bag to depict the experience of Blacks in the shoes of racism, and the role of various factors such as institutions and culture, in the propagation of Black racism (Hinchey par. 8). Therefore, the author follows the prescription of persuasive methodologies, and does not display a deviation from the rhetoric norm, since she applies significant persuasive strategies in order to convince the audience.
Conclusively, Hinchey’s text is rhetorically effective, since it displays a series of various strategies necessary to convince about the prevalence of Black racism in America, and the Black women’s hand in the motivation of intersectional leaders towards the initiation of change. Therefore, the text is moving, owing to its wide display of the prevalence of Black racism, which culminates to murder and various forms of discrimination in America (Hinchey par. 3). Furthermore, Hinchey’s text prompts and convinces towards a critical review of women leader’s role in ending Black racism in America, owing to the writer’s display of the efforts of various women groups such as MAU, in the overall advocacy of their rights (Hinchey par. 14).
Works Cited
Hinchey, Katie. AllBlackLivesMatter: The Creation of an Intersectional Movement. 19 Dec. 2014. online. Web. 9 Feb. 2016.
