– Main questions to be answered: Can an American citizen form a proud patriotic

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– Main questions to be answered: Can an American citizen form a proud patriotic identity while the imbedded American Hypocricy is upheld? Should the Fourth of July be celebrated at all, and is Juneteenth the answer to F.Douglass questions in his speech?
-Since this speech seems to uphold most of its arguments made about the hypocricy of “celebrating being American”, the analysis of the speech should provide an answer to if the Fourth of July should still be celebrated.
– Examine Frederick Douglass’ definition of American identity by navigating through his struggle between his acknowledgement of American ideals and his exclusion from American society. Base this examination on the speech: What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
– short overview of F.Douglass
– summary of speech and short overview of rhetorical devices used in the speech:” What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” –> What does it mean to be Amreican according to the speech. Focus on his use of anamnesis as a device. Concluding that being the best version of an Americancan only mean being educated enough.
– Show how the speech serves as an example, why it is basically impossible to identify as an American guilt-free, as slavery was never abolished like Douglass hoped, but it was changed into systemic racism.
– Show how his speech is the example for identifying oneself as American comes with certain difficulties if the groundwork (e.g.Declariation of idenpendence,Constitution) is not interpretetd correctly. hence education, makes oneself the ideal American. Hence his use of anamnesis.
-https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/TMR/issue/view/779/168
– https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2927t.html

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