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and enrich the study of challenging rhetoric and argument.
Visual Text sections expand rhetorical analysis skills.
Knowing the importance
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of visuals as rhetorical
texts in college study
and in society as a Self-Portrait on the Borderline
between Mexico and the United States
whole, we feature a Frida Kahlo
Visual Texts section in Visual Text Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) was the daughter of Guillermo Kahlo, a
every chapter. Among German immigrant to Mexico, and Matilde Calderón de Kahlo, a Lucas Vallecillos/AGE Fotostock
woman of Spanish and indigenous descent. Born in Mexico, Kahlo
the images are magazine first traveled to the United States with her husband, Mexican painter
Diego Rivera, in the early 1930s. Over the next few years, the couple
covers, photographs, lived in San Francisco, New York City, and Detroit before returning
to Mexico.
advertisements, murals, KEY CONTEXT Kahlo painted Self-Portrait on the Borderline between Mexico and the United
States while she was living in the United States with her husband, Diego Rivera.
and paintings. We States while she was living in the United States with her husband, Diego Rivera.
approach these visual Go 9
©2022 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York;
texts as we do written Kehinde Wiley
ones — rhetorically — encouraging Best known for his official portrait of President Barack Obama, Joanne Davidson/Camera Press/Redux Pictures
Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977) is an American artist who was born and
students to read them closely raised in Los Angeles, California, and now divides his time between Visual Texts / Kehinde Wiley
New York and Senegal. He earned a BFA from the San Francisco Art
and ask questions about the Institute and an MFA from the Yale University School of Art. His work
has been exhibited in museums all over the world. Like the conservative laborer who spurns the 4
international students and the LGBTQ commu-
ways artists achieve their nity. I was none of those things, and professors idea of “handouts,” my pride was bigger than my
None of that can happen if we keep focusing on
$50,000 or more in debt forgiveness, stating that
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individual scenarios.
he was unwilling to grant relief “for people who KEY CONTEXT Kehinde Wiley’s work often updates classical
and other students often assumed from looking
need. I didn’t know the term “first-generation stu-
purposes. have gone to Harvard and Yale and Penn.” (An portraits, depicting young Black men and women posed as European royalty. His backgrounds
“There are so many dead-end conversations
dent” and didn’t grasp yet that I had in fact “grown
at me or hearing me speak that I was a middle-
that we can continue to have about student
estimated 0.3 percent of borrowers attended Ivy incorporate design elements from French Rococo style, Islamic architecture, and West African
up poor” and was still very much “living in poverty.”
class kid with parents sending me money.
debt,” Louise Seamster, a sociologist at the
League colleges.) textile design, among others. Go is a hand-painted, stained-glass ceiling triptych — that is, a work
The best I could come up with for describing my
To pay my room and board during my fresh-
University of Iowa who studies race and ineq-
Biden would like public colleges to be 10 in three parts, a form often used in medieval and Renaissance religious paintings — created for the Other Voices / Sarah Smarsh
man year at college, I worked as a tutor for poor
situation was that I was a “financially independent
tuition- free for families making $125,000 or less, redesign of New York City’s Penn Station. It depicts young New Yorkers break dancing.
uity, explains. “So we have to ask ourselves,
middle-school kids in nearby Kansas City and
student” and that “I grew up on a farm.”
how can we talk about this differently?”
and community colleges to be free for all. Those Topeka in the afternoons, as a stage technician Other Voices / Anne Helen Petersen
Emphasizing visual analysis: Images with a purpose. Private Collection Photo ©Christie’s Images/Bridgeman Images
are admirable beginnings of a holistic plan
for a performing arts center in the evenings, and
• • •
Andrew Moore/The New York Times/Redux
for affordable college moving forward, but his
The federal student loans program was concep-
proposal to forgive just $10,000 in student debt — as my dorm’s front-desk attendant overnight. Among household heads with at least a
During spring break, I was the trail boss for an
We believe that visual literacy is crucial to being able to understand bachelor’s degree, household incomes
and try to repair income-driven repayment
tualized as an equalizer, a way to allow people
are higher for those with a parent who is
environmental cleanup crew. I waited tables,
without financial stability to take out small
programs, particularly for those in public too, late-night shifts worth a 45-minute drive to a college graduate
and analyze our world, which is why the fourth edition of The Median adjusted household income, in 2019 dollars
amounts with low-interest or even subsidized
service — reproduces the same fundamental
Kansas City because the tips were better there. I
loans, to get their foot in the door of the
misunderstanding of the problem. knew other kids with jobs but not many who had A parent with bachelor’s+
Language of Composition , in addition to the Visual Text sections, No parent with bachelor’s degree
“We’re drowning in the technical details and
American dream. For millions of Americans, it
no choice but to work.
neglecting the core moral argument,” Frederick made college not just accessible but imaginable. $100,900 1932
There are many complicated reasons why so
includes visual texts that accompany all of the readings in the book. All households 65,200
The idea was simple, and not unlike an invest-
Wherry, a professor of sociology at Princeton
few people cross a socio-economic divide in any
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ment in, say, a home. Whatever money you took
University and the director of the Dignity and lasting way, but one of the reasons is simple: it is
58,600
These images are carefully chosen — each one has a clear, authentic High school or 49,900
Debt Network, told me. Student loans have
out to cover the cost of college, whatever interest
a painful crossing. Those were the hardest years
less
you ended up paying on the loan as you paid it
failed to serve their original function, instead of my life. "First-Generation College Graduates Lag Behind Their Peers on Key Economic Outcomes" Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C. (May 17, 2021) https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/05/18/first-generation-college-
pedagogical purpose. We made it our goal to carefully select images 20 70,500 graduates-lag-behind-their-peers-on-key-economic-outcomes/psdt_05-18-21_parental-education-00-4/
off, all of it would be eclipsed by a so-called
working to hollow out the middle class or pre-
When I called home, I heard the familiar
vent access to it altogether. Substantive — if not stories: my 30-year-old cousin didn’t know how Some college 67,000 06/10/22 4:20 PM
diploma bump. Sure, you were paying off debt.
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that inform the reading of a print text, suggest new ideas, or provide 135,800
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wholescale — student loan cancellation offers an
But you were also making a lot more money
she’d pay her hospital bills, but she’d survived
than you would have without that degree.
opportunity to not only acknowledge how the colon cancer. At a party Grandma threw at the Bachelor’s
degree+
For years, this has been the animating the-
additional context. program has misled millions of Americans but farm, Grandpa’s daughter-in-law rifled through 99,600
to begin the long process of restoring access, unlocked parked cars to steal cash — to buy Note: Based on household heads ages 22 to 59. Income is adjusted
ory of American student loans. They’re not a
for household size and scaled to a three-person household, “Some
solidity, and racial equity to the middle class. shortcut to the middle class or a cheat code, but college” includes those with an associate degree, certi cate, and
college” includes those with an associate degree, certi cate, and
drugs, my mom speculated — and in the process those who attended college but did not obtain a degree.
those who attended college but did not obtain a degree.
Andrew Moore/The New York Times/Redux
Source: Pew Research Center analysis of 2019 Survey of Consume
took my cousin’s last $20. Well, she’d had it, so Source: Pew Research Center analysis of 2019 Survey of Consumer
Finances.
Finances.
she beat the shit out of her while my mom “First-Generation College Graduates Lag Behind Their Peers on Ke
“First-Generation College Graduates Lag Behind Their Peers on Key
Economic Outcomes”
cheered her on and my uncle tried to pull them Economic Outcomes”
PEW RESEARCH CENTER
PEW RESEARCH CENTER
apart. Dad was on a new job site. His wife was
In this image, a demonstrator
wearing a white doctor’s coat
having more health problems, due to painkillers This graph, cr eated by the Pew Resear ch Center
This graph, created by the Pew Research Center
holds a sign attesting to the
in 2019, shows the median adjusted household
that an unscrupulous physician had carelessly in 2019, shows the median adjusted household
financial burden of becoming a
income of those ages twenty-two to fifty-nine
prescribed. Bills bills bills. income of those ages twenty-two to fifty-nine
physician.
based not only on their own educational
Then I hung up and went to class. based not only on their own educational
STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP/Getty Images
How does the photo’s
attainment but that of their parents as well.
attainment but that of their parents as well.
Few people knew how much I was struggling What story does the data in this graph,
message relate to Petersen’s
What story does the data in this graph,
line of reasoning? Which
both emotionally and financially, because created by the Pew Research Center, tell?
created by the Pew Research Center, tell?
How does it relate to Smarsh’s claim that
version of the “loan journey,”
I didn’t talk to anyone about it or even under- How does it relate to Smarsh’s claim that
as Petersen calls it, does this
“There are many complicated reasons why so
stand how bad off I was. Knowing I’d never ask “There are many complicated reasons why so 1027
image depict, and how might
few people cross a socio-economic divide in
for it, my high school cheerleading coach mailed few people cross a socio-economic divide in
any lasting way, but one of the reasons is
any lasting way, but one of the reasons is
student loan forgiveness
me $300. I put it in a thank-you card and mailed simple: it is a painful crossing” (par. 19)?
be fairly applied in such a
simple: it is a painful crossing” (par. 19)?
it back. situation?
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