Tournament: Georgetown | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lakeland AR | Judge: Geathers
Part 1 is Narration
The history of the Americas was constructed on dehumanization of native people and the erasure of their culture. The Spanish colonizers justified their actions as missionaries of God, declaring their sovereignty under threat of death to the Indigenous people. Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda pushed for colonization of the Americas because the natives were “natural slaves”, and the lone deterrent, Bartolomé de las Casas, only disagreed because he thought the indigenous were completely submissive to the white Christian conquistadors. The Indigenous Americans were either noble savages or barbarians, one resulting in erasure of culture, the other in erasure of their lives. When blacks were brought to Mesoamerica, it was through the middle passage to break them into slaves. The Caribbean served as the slave factory for the American colonies.
Modern racism was thus born in the colonization of the Americas
Quijano 2k Ph.D from the National University of San Marcos, he was a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences of San Marcos, he currently teaches as a Professor of the Department of Sociology at Binghamton University, “Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America”, Nepantla: Views from South 1.3, http://www.unc.edu/~aescobar/wan/wanquijano.pdf
However, centuries later, the Cuban War of Independence emancipated Cuban civil society from European oppression. Cuba’s civil society is fundamentally different from the United States’
Cole ’80 November/December 1980, Johnnetta B. Cole was the first African-American female president of Spelman College from 1987 to 1997. She was president of Bennett College from 2002 to 2007. She is currently director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art, “Race Toward Equality: The Impact Of The Cuban Revolution On Racism” The Black Scholar, Vol. 11, No. 8
And, although our neighbors across the puddle have separated themselves from white supremacy, the US remains a racist state. Current policy making structures are created by the white male power base and ignore and disadvantage minority voices
Shaw ‘4 Jan. - Feb., 2004, Katharine, Associate Professor of Urban Studies at Ohio State Using Feminist Critical Policy Analysis in the Realm of Higher Education: The Case of Welfare Reform as Gendered Educational Policy Source: The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 75, No. 1, Special Issue: Questions of Research and Methodology, pp. 56-79
Even the name “Latin America” is an epistemological construct relying on colonialist power relations and grounded in a racialized conception of the territory. This coloniality is furthered through intervention under the guise of growth and modernization, masking oppression
Mignolo 5 (Walter D., Ph.D. in Philosophy from the École des Hautes Études, Paris and Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University, "The Idea of Latin America," 2005, slim_)
Racism must be rejected in EVERY INSTANCE without surcease. It justifies atrocities, creates another and is truly the CAPITAL SIN.
Memmi ’00 2000, Albert is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology @ Unv. Of Paris, Albert-; RACISM, translated by Steve Martinot, pp.163-165
Historical perceptions of Mesoamerica are byproducts of western control of knowledge
Quijano 2k Ph.D from the National University of San Marcos, he was a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences of San Marcos, he currently teaches as a Professor of the Department of Sociology at Binghamton University, “Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America”, Nepantla: Views from South 1.3, http://www.unc.edu/~aescobar/wan/wanquijano.pdf
Recognizing the subjectivity of imperialist historiography allows for the emergence of decolonial knowledge production
Mignolo 5 (Walter D., Ph.D. in Philosophy from the École des Hautes Études, Paris and Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University, "The Idea of Latin America," 2005, slim_)
Thus Jon and I advocate a historical examination of oppression embedded in Cuba, United States economic engagement policies towards Cuba, and within civil society
Part 2 is Process
We call for a capricious approach to history that allows us to examine it as a site for oppression. This is the only way for genuine discussion, study and learning.
Trofanenko 2k5 Brenda-, Research Chair in Education, Culture and Community @ Acadia University; On Defense of the Nation; THE SOCIAL STUDIES, 96.5 (2005): 193+;
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Genealogical investigations provide a meticulous rediscovery of struggles allowing us to make use of that knowledge in contemporary tactics
Medina 11 Jose-Associate Prof of Philosophy @ Vanderbilt; “Toward a Focaultian Epistemology of Resistance: Counter-Memory, Epistemic Friction and Guerilla Pluralism”; October 2011.
Examination of the myths that define the nation-state is crucial to education
Trofanenko 2k5 Brenda-, Research Chair in Education, Culture and Community @ Acadia University; On Defense of the Nation; THE SOCIAL STUDIES, 96.5 (2005): 193+;
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Dissent and debate depend on social criticism. Shaming measures regulate the viable speaking subject. We must brave the stigma associated with disidentification.
Butler ‘4 2004, Judith Butler is a Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at U.C. Berkeley, “Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence”, pg. xix-xxi