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Analysis Of The 13th Documentary By Angela Davis

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The purpose of the 13th documentary is to spread the message that although it was ruled that the concept of slaves is no longer prohibited, minorities such as African Americans and Latinos are still mistreated, and are imprisoned for minor offenses. Imprisonment of minorities for minor offenses is an excuse to still allow slavery. Since this topic is something that affected minorities for years in a negative way, it is important for the creators of this documentary to include emotionally-charged content in order to get the audience to feel and understand the harm this issue causes and promote a change within the criminal justice system. The documentary tries to appeal to the audience’s emotions by including disturbing clips and images of the mistreatment and abuse towards black people, as well as having people who endured this abuse in the past talk about what they experienced and what they felt at the time. One moment from the documentary that stood out to me was when they started to show …show more content…

Angela Davis is one of the speakers included in this documentary. She spoke about her personal experience of mistreatment in the 20th century. Currently, she is an American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author. Back in 1970, Angela Davis was accused of being involved with the murder of a prison guard. This accusation caused her to be placed on the FBI’s top ten most wanted fugitives list. Davis had nothing to do with the murder. She was unjustly sent to jail for 16 months. Her experience shows that black people will get sent to jail when they are innocent. She was even considered to be “armed and dangerous.” Angela Davis talking about this subject and being involved with this documentary is a good example of why this information is

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13th is a documentary directed and produced by Ava Duvernay. The documentary dives deep into America’s prison system and America’s history of racial inequalities. The documentary contained many forms of rhetoric, including, kairos, logos, ethos, pathos, and visual rhetoric. Using these methods of rhetoric helps director Ava Duvernay get her point across to the audience.  

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Part Four of Angela Davis: An Autobiography opens with a preface written by Henry Dumas, “fire eaters from the sun we shall lay the high dome to siege cover scream with holy wings, in those days we shall be terrible” (Dumas 147). As the fourth part of Angela Davis’ book is titled “Flames,” this preface relates to this part in many ways. Flames themselves start from a spark, such as a small movement or resistance that continues to burn and add others to the fuel until it becomes a flame. Additionally, the idea that the revolution and rebellion coming from the forces Davis supports is seen as terrible when it seems to be derived from a good and righteous purpose.

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Angela Davis is an African American activist-scholar and educator. She believes in prisoners’ rights and politics. Her life would be flipped upside down during a courthouse trail. Everything had went wrong when three black men open fire in front of authority. This had cause to lead some victims dead, injured, and kidnapped.

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Part Five of Angela Davis: An Autobiography, opens with the words of Wallace Stevens “The hand between the candle and the wall Grows large on the wall... It must be that the hand Has a will to grow larger on the wall, To grow larger and heavier than the wall” (Stevens 281). As Part Five details Davis’ struggles with the prison system in California after being moved, this preface seems to indicate Davis’ growing desire to outgrow the wall of oppression she faces, and even tear it down from the inside. At the beginning of the part, Davis notices herself being separated by her brothers and sisters by walls and other objects as if to show that the wall is what must be conquered what separates her from her purpose and cause “On the other side of the gate a crowd had gathered and when I got out of the car, they let out a clamorous ‘Free Angela Davis and all political prisoners!’

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Angela Davis is a significant activist, educator, and author who rose to prominence during the 1960s and 1970s for her work in powerful movements for black, female, and class equality both domestically and internationally. She has often given speeches at rallies and been invited to speak at various forums and universities, using all platforms to expose the wrongdoings of the United States government as well as spur viewers to fight for a more equal world. In her speeches, Davis primarily utilizes rhetorical strategies of specific exemplification, a fraternal tone, and hypophoras to achieve effective and meaningful impacts on her audiences. Angela Davis utilizes exemplification in her works to demonstrate the oppressions and injustices she describes with specific and individual examples, increasing the validity of

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The 13th Amendment, ratified about 157 years ago, states: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” In the documentary 13th, the loophole to this American right is explored: although slavery may be illegal, discreetly targeting people of color to put them in prison is not. 13th is a powerful documentary that scrutinizes the unjust U.S. prison system, and explores the repercussions that the abolition of slavery had on people of color. I found that this documentary was engaging, yet brutally honest in the way it addresses historic discriminatory acts that have caused the incarceration rates in America to rise through the

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Angela Davis is to be considered one of the most important political activists in African American culture. Davis was born on January 26th, 1944 in the deep south, more specifically, Birmingham, Alabama. Due to this, Davis was very susceptible to racial prejudice in her early years. She was also influenced by the idea of communism at a young age because her mother was actively involved with politics. Davis spent the majority of her early years as a scholar.

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Unveiling Injustice: Analyzing "13th" and the Crisis of Mass Incarceration in America Ava DuVernay's documentary "13th" serves as a poignant exposé on the crisis of mass incarceration in the United States, particularly its disproportionate impact on African American communities. Through a critical lens, the film scrutinizes the historical context, systemic racism, and policies like the 13th Amendment, shedding light on the deep-rooted inequalities within the criminal justice system. This essay delves into the persuasive strategies employed in the documentary, the necessity of data-driven evaluation, and the scholarly discourse surrounding the issues it addresses. "13th" strategically employs emotional persuasion to evoke empathy and outrage

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Access and attention to this information has become easy and immediate through social media. Therefore, I find it impossible that anyone could say that they were unaware of the injustice within our police and prison systems towards people of color before watching this documentary. However, I was unaware of some of the moments in our history that have built up this injustice that we see today. Although I have studied the constitution's amendments several times throughout my education, it has never been brought to my attention that the wording of it allows people to be treated as a slave once they are labeled a criminal. In my memory of learning about this amendment, I was taught that this amendment abolished slavery after the Civil War.

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In the years prior to the Civil War, countless black Americans found themselves forcibly bound by the chains of slavery and barred from basic human rights. As identities were stripped by slaveholders denying freedom and equality, slaves were imposed with the burdens of captivity and its inherent evils. As freed people, both Frederick Douglass in “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” and Solomon Northup in “12 Years a Slave” detail the true horrors, hypocrisy, and abuse they experienced while enslaved. Douglass and Northup effectively communicate and depict the slave system to a sympathetic anti-slavery audience using tone, imagery, and irony to enhance readers’ impressions and appeal to their pathos.

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What was never presented was the point of view from the African Americans because it was seemingly dismissed. It was eye-opening to read about the experience from an African’s perspective because it brought a whole new light to my understanding of what it meant to be a slave and the struggles black Americans face here in the US, even

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The “13th” is a documentary about the American system of incarceration and the economic forces behind racism in America especially in people of color. One of the claims that the author mentioned is that today incarceration is an extension of slavery. It is also mentioned that most of the time in society we are defined by race. In the documentary, we can see how African Americans are sentenced for many years since they are too poor to pay their fines or sometimes most of these people plead guilty to get out of jail fast. However, African Americans are separated from their families and also treated inhumanly in prisons just because they are of a particular race.

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There is a scene in the movie that shows a white women jumping off of a cliff and plummeting to her death than to be raped by a black man. This is an exaggeration because black people as a whole were portrayed by white people as outcasts, low class citizens, and criminals and there were many white masters raping their black female slaves. In addition to that the 13th also

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13th Documentary Analysis Ava DuVernay’s documentary mentions that the United States makes up five percent of the world’s population yet is home to twenty five percent of the world’s prisoners. One out of four prisoners in the world are locked up in the U.S. The United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. The thirteenth amendment of the constitution makes it unconstitutional for someone to be held as a slave.

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The video discussed the case of Lena Baker, an African American woman who was convicted of killing her white employer in self-defense in 1945 and subsequently sentenced to death. The video emphasized the prevalence of racial discrimination and injustice during the Jim Crow era in the United States. The video showed how Lena Baker was denied a fair trial and was not given the opportunity to defend herself adequately. The legal system at that time was biased against African Americans, and Lena's case was a clear example of the injustice faced by people of color. The video also highlighted the struggle of women during that period, especially women of color.

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