Precis Five MWP3

In, "Rocking the racism boat: school-based activists speak out on denial and avoidance" author Darren E. Lund discusses how teachers in Canada are preaching anti-racism to their elementary students. Lund reveals the activities that educators are having their students do to teach them ways to prevent racism. The purpose of this piece is to teach children to look beyond skin color and respect one another in order to prevent them from doing anything racially motivated in their future. 

Precis Four MWP 3

In the book titled, "The Rhetoric of Racist Humour: Us, UK and Global Race Joking" author Simon Weaver talks about racist humor being a form of racist rhetoric. Weaver backs his claim up by referring to other studies about the subject. The purpose of this book is to point out a different way to look at racism in order to aware the reader to consider how other people may feel on this subject. With the overall tone of this book, the intended audience would be a mature group of open minded people.

Precis Three MWP 3

In his journal titled,"Racism: What It Is and What It Isn’t" author Lawrence Blum settles the confusion on what is racist and whats not. He clears the confusion by creating a guideline that starts by defining racism followed by different positive and negative situations. Blum discusses this valid situation in order to enlighten people on the subject of race. With the tone of this journal, i would say that the appropriate audience for this piece are college students.

Working Thesis MWP 3

A racist joke, almost everyone has heard one or possibly even repeated one. With all of the programs they have on the television and the many websites they have on the internet that have racist jokes, its hard for a person to avoid these jokes. With a racist joke, it not only targets multiple ethnic groups, but it also targets religious groups and they can be considered hate crimes. Officials need to find ways to cut down on the access of these inappropriate comments or jokes. 

Precis Two MWP 3

In, "Just Joking: Is Racist Humour A Form Of Vilification?" author Senthorun Sunil Raj discusses racist humor. The author goes in detail by explaining what hate crimes are and the different punishments that are handed out to the guilty party. The purpose if this journal is to inform people of the magnitude of this serious offense in order to warn people of their verbal actions. The tone of this piece has to be upper level high school or college students.

With this last academic article, I was unable to obtain the full document so I was forced to use the abstract. The title of the journal was, “Jokes, rhetoric and embodied racism: a rhetorical discourse analysis of the logics of racist jokes on the internet” and the authors name was Simon Weaver. In this journal, the author talks about racism on the internet or “cyber racism”. Since this was on the abstract, there was little information that I could retain from it. In the journal, Weaver chooses to talk about this subject because it can be seen in a lot of content over the internet. “It is argued that racist jokes can act as important rhetorical devices for serious racisms, and thus work in ways that can support racism in particular readings.” Weaver goes on to explain that there are two types of racism when it comes to jokes over the internet. “it is shown that internet jokes express two key logics of racism. These logics are inclusion and exclusion. It is argued that inclusion usually inferiorizes and employs race stereotypes whereas exclusion often does not.” He follows that up by saying how racism over the internet has been ignored for so long,” because of a reliance on a problematic and celebratory definition of the ethnic joke.”

Precis MWP 3

In his journal titled, "Jokes, rhetoric and embodied racism: a rhetorical discourse analysis of the logics of racist jokes on the internet" author Simon Weaver discusses racism on the internet. He supports this claims by showing different accounts of racist jokes on the internet. Weaver shows the audience this form of racism in order to aware people of this other type of racism. With the content of this journal, the targeted audience of this piece is college students.