Tournament: Lex | Round: Finals | Opponent: Berkely Prep | Judge: Gabriel Koo
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BY: Dead Prez
WHITENESS, A SYSTEM OF WHITE PRIVILEGE, IS REIFIED IN DEBATE THROUGH THE HOMOGENIZING FUNCTION OF 'EXPERT', LEGITIMIZED DISCOURSE. TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION WITHIN THE DEBATE COMMUNITY PRIVILEGES THOSE WITH INSTITUTIONAL POWER WHILE EXCLUDING KNOWLEDGE MARKED BY DIFFERENCE. ? DR. SHANARA REID-BRINKLEY 8 Dr. Shanara Reid-Brinkley, "THE HARSH REALITIES OF “ACTING BLACK”: HOW AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLICY DEBATERS NEGOTIATE REPRESENTATION THROUGH RACIAL PERFORMANCE AND STYLE" pages 81-83
KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION ON LATIN AMERICA IS LEGITIMIZED IN A WAY THAT DISCREDITS BLACK SCHOLARSHIP.
Persico 2011 (Melva M.; “Counterpublics and Aesthetics: Afro-Hispanic and Belizean Women Writers”)
THE EXCLUSION OF BLACK SCHOLARSHIP IS AN EXTENSION OF THE STATUS QUO MODELS OF EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION REQUIRES AS ITS FIRST STEP THE PROCESS OF TRAINING BLACK DEBATERS TO BE SLAVES. EDUCATION IS THE ONLY WAY MINORITY BODIES CAN TRULY BE LIBERATED.
Farley 2005("Perfecting Slavery" B.A., University of Virginia, J.D., Harvard Law School, Prof. Farley specializes in Constitutional Law January 2005)
THEREFORE, ME AND MY PARTNER ADVOCATE THAT THE DEBATE SPACE BE TAKEN TO THE UNDERCOMMONS.
WE MUST LEAVE BEHIND THE MODEL OF DEBATE THAT ALLOWS US TO BE CODED AND FRAMED BY DOMINANT POWER THAT CAUSES THE SILENCING AND SUBJAGATION OF MINORITY BODIES. THE UNDERCOMMONS IS THE SPACE IN WHICH DEBATERS ARE CONSTANTLY CRITICALLY, SUBVERSIVELY ENGAGING THIS ACADEMIC SPACE. THE ACADEMY MAY NOT LIKE WHAT WE’VE PRESENTED, BUT OUR ADVOCACY IS NECESSARY: WE MUST STEAL BACK FROM THIS SPACE WHAT IT HAS STOLEN FROM US—OUR AGENCY! THIS CAN ONLY BE DONE IN THE UNDERCOMMONS.
Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, The University and the Undercommons, SEVEN THESES Social Text 79, Vol. 22, No. 2, Summer 2004. Copyright © 2004 by Duke University Press.
THE STRUGGLE OVER SCHOLARLY CULTURAL REPRESENTATION IN LATIN AMERICA CAN BE BEST UNDERSTOOD THROUGH THE LENS OF DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS, GROUNDED IN THE STRUGGLE OVER THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION AND THE UNEQUAL INCORPORATION OF AFRO-DESCENDANTS IN THE NATIONAL PROJECT AS WELL AS IN WORLD SYSTEMS.
Sawyer 2008 (Mark Q.; “Du Bois’s Double Consciousness versus Latin American Exceptionalism: Joe Arroyo, Salsa, and Négritude”)
THE MOVEMENT TO THE CRITICAL SPACE OF THE UNDERCOMMONS IS KEY FOR THE STRATEGIC ASSERTION OF BLACKNESS ALLOWS US TO UNDERSTAND THE STRUGGLE OF AFRO-DESCENDANTS FOR RECOGNITION AND ALLOWS FOR THE OVERCOMING OF AFRO-LATIN OPPRESSION.
Sawyer 2008 (Mark Q.; “Du Bois’s Double Consciousness versus Latin American Exceptionalism: Joe Arroyo, Salsa, and Négritude”)
The ROB in this debate is for the judge to endorse the team that presents the best methodology of survivability and liberation of the minority body
Mumia Abu-Jamal 1998“A QUIET AND DEADLY VIOLENCE,” 9/19/98, http:www.mumia.nl/TCCDMAJ/quietdv.htm
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