Tournament: Lakeland | Round: 2 | Opponent: Edgemont JN | Judge: Daryl Burch
The future is white – we inject the oppressed subject into the future to disrupt modernity
Ramirez 8 – assistant professor in American studies at UC Santa Cruz(Catherine, “Afrofuturism/Chicanafuturism”, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies Spring 2008, p185-191, Daehyun)
*We reject offensive language
I open this essay with … technology, and science fiction.
The status quo is rooted in institutional violence where power relations deprive the oppressed of agency – The US-mexico border is a unique site of oppression – our method of chicanfuturism breaks down hegemonic knowledge production and dualistic norms through the envisioning of new futures
Rivera 12 – professor at Western Washington University(Lysa, “Future Histories and Cyborg Labor: Reading Borderlands Science Fiction after NAFTA”, Science Fiction Studies Vol. 39, No. 3 (November 2012), JSTOR, Daehyun)
*We reject offensive language
For decades, writers of … political status quo.
The new mestiza consciousness is a fluid identity that enables resistance to oppression however this round is key to bring the third space into the future
Feghali 11 (Zalfa, PhD from Nottingham University, writing for Journal of International Women's Studies, “Re-articulating the New Mestiza”, JIWS, Vol 12, #2 2011, http://www.bridgew.edu/soas/jiws/vol12_no2/pdfs/6_zalfa.pdf)//AL
Refiguring the mestiza In … of elucidating identity.