Tournament: Neregional | Round: 2 | Opponent: Western Connecticut State Escoffery-Adams | Judge: Patrice
AT: Western Connecticut EA (Dancing Aff)

LINK - Prioritizing the body in the debate space reifies biological difference – it causes alienation

BANKEY 2013
(Brendon, THE “FACT OF BLACKNESS” DOES NOT EXIST: AN EVOCATIVE CRITICISM OF RESISTANCE RHETORIC IN ACADEMIC POLICY DEBATE AND ITS (MIS)USE OF FRANTZ FANON’S BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS, thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Wake Forest University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for the Degree of Master of Arts Communication, successfully defended, August, p. 114-115)AR BING

  The previous chapter explores...engaging in resistance.3

LINK - Performance of race in the debate space is exacting revenge upon a captive audience – this promotes essentialism and causes alienation

BANKEY 2013
(Brendon, THE “FACT OF BLACKNESS” DOES NOT EXIST: AN EVOCATIVE CRITICISM OF RESISTANCE RHETORIC IN ACADEMIC POLICY DEBATE AND ITS (MIS)USE OF FRANTZ FANON’S BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS, thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Wake Forest University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for the Degree of Master of Arts Communication, successfully defended, August, p. 128-133)AR BING

   Like Fanon, Moten finds...evils of whiteness in its place.

LINK -  Immersion in your own experience trades off with politics. It logically entails that others should ignore your suffering because they can’t access it – we should endorse contingent identities and shared community understanding

BHAMBRA and MARGEE 2010  (Gurminder, prof of Sociology U of Warwick, and Victoria, U Brighton, “Identity Politics and the Need for a ‘Tomorrow’”, Economic and Policy Weekly, April 10, retrieved from http://www.academia.edu/471824/Identity_Politics_and_the_Need_for_a_Tomorrow_ )AR

We suggest that alternative models of identity...not equally available or powerful for all subjects.  4

IMPACT - Only disalienation achieves authenticity and decolonization – their approach forecloses this possibility

BANKEY 2013 (Brendon, THE “FACT OF BLACKNESS” DOES NOT EXIST: AN EVOCATIVE CRITICISM OF RESISTANCE RHETORIC IN ACADEMIC POLICY DEBATE AND ITS (MIS)USE OF FRANTZ FANON’S BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS, thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Wake Forest University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for the Degree of Master of Arts Communication, successfully defended, August, p. 87-92)AR BING

  Fanon’s conclusion to Black Skin, White Masks...other in mind.

IMPACT - Valorizing injury and making an island of their own identity necessarily forecloses a future of  social change. 

BHAMBRA and MARGEE 2010  (Gurminder, prof of Sociology U of Warwick, and Victoria, U Brighton, “Identity Politics and the Need for a ‘Tomorrow’”, Economic and Policy Weekly, April 10, retrieved from http://www.academia.edu/471824/Identity_Politics_and_the_Need_for_a_Tomorrow_ )AR

We wish to turn now to a related problem... identity being foreclosed through its attention to past-based grievances.

REJECT the historical determinism of their advocacy

FANON 1952 (Frantz, revolutionary writer and leading thinker for post-colonial studies, psychiatrist, born in Martinique. Black Skin, White Masks. Trans. Richard Philcox. Originally published in French in 1952, this edition is 2007. New York: Grove Press, p.205-206)AR

I am not a slave to slavery.. My final prayer: O my body, always make me a man who questions!

ALTERNATIVE: Disalienation is taking a RISK towards an IDEAL alternative that solves social death by reclaiming a positive humanity

BANKEY 2013
(Brendon, THE “FACT OF BLACKNESS” DOES NOT EXIST: AN EVOCATIVE CRITICISM OF RESISTANCE RHETORIC IN ACADEMIC POLICY DEBATE AND ITS (MIS)USE OF FRANTZ FANON’S BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS, thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Wake Forest University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for the Degree of Master of Arts Communication, successfully defended, August, p. 96)AR BING

  Fanon’s charting of disalienation...for recognition of black folks inherent dignity.”73