PB2A

In my PB2A I will be analyzing and searching for different moves that Samantha Master made in her article “13^th and the Invisibleness of Black Women”

The first move that I noticed that Master made was when she states “What has emerged as common knowledge through the Movement for Black Lives is laid out clearly and plainly in the film: Mass incarceration and modern-day policing are mutations of American slavery that mean to maintain the economic, social, political and legal subjugation of black people to support the (white) American enterprise.” I would call this move “Damn that’s Everyday” I would refer this move to that because I feel as though a lot of Blacks have been getting sensuously killed lately. I think this helped the text because before she got into her argument she mentioned The Black Lives Matter Movement which has to do with the overall of the article

The second move that I spotted in this article is “13th evokes the eponymous 13th Amendment, which simultaneously emancipated enslaved Africans and laid the groundwork for their continued confinement and the forced extraction of labor from their bodies through convict leasing, Jim Crow and, more recently, “broken windows” policing and the war on drugs.” I would refer to this move as “Bringing Up History” I called it this because she brought up the history of the 13^th Amendment and what it did for blacks in history. It brought out more evidence and ethos that the author knows something about the topic she picked to write about.

The third move the author made was when she said “The abolition of slavery, “except as a punishment for crime,” is an insidious loophole in the 13th Amendment that provides an instructive framework from which audiences can better understand today’s crisis of mass incarceration: The U.S. has less than 5 percent of the world’s population and a quarter of the world’s prisoners.” I referred to this move as “World Facts” After all she mentioned “world” two times and having 25% of your population being incarcerated when you only have less than 5% of the world’s population is a whole lot. I feel as though the author made this connection because the movie “13^th” is about mass incarcerations.

The fourth move I noticed was when Master reminded us that “”13^th” boasts an impressive slate of organizers, historians, advocates, scholars and formerly incarcerated people who tell the origin story and contemporary impact of America’s hypercriminalization of black people, including the power of media to create narratives about blackness that were so terrifying that even black America took up the mantle to cage and confine our kindred in the name of “law and order.”” This move is called “Capturing Authorial Action” In my opinion it is called this because the author is stating her opinion. I assume this move was made so she could make her next move.

Her next move was “However, the film’s power is tempered by a glaring omission: black women’s stories.” I call this move “Authors Quote” This helped the author’s text because it was a good transition from the last paragraph.

Another move I noticed Master make throughout her whole article was her putting a lot of hyperlinks to other sites which made her argument even stronger and that she did her resource on the topic. I call this move “Stating Facts” It helped the article because it made me personally believe what she was saying even more by her citing other sites.