Prompt one:
Both PvF and TMM has the same common discussion according to the Swale’s six characteristics of the discourse community who shares the common public goals which is to define the race discrimination, intercommunication from each member of the community. Both PvF and TMM discussed about the racial discrimination based on the appearance and the personal identity/status which should consider of having Civil rights.
Prompt two:
They spread the goal of their community, by analyzing and writing scientific journals, texts, theories, and doctrines. Furthermore, by utilizing these texts, they were ‘teaching’ other scientists, and those in the political hierarchy at the time that these certain things were true, and pushing the idea that there should be a ranking system, and that mixing races would halt the ‘white’ power. Specifically referring to Agassiz, he feared the marriage of a white person with a black person the most
Prompt three:
The racist ideals that the Jim Crow laws were founded on existed in the south before the civil war, but they were amplified afterwards. Many businesses lost their primary source of labor and the southern economy was turned is head. Others were resentful towards the north for winning the war and changing so much about their way of life. Targeting the newly freed black population became the easiest way of retaining control.
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