Tournament: Texas | Round: 2 | Opponent: Georgetown Erpenbach-McGrath | Judge: Turner
Language is tied to our identity  
Anzaldua, 1990
(Gloria, Chicana and Cultural Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures, How to Tame a Wild Tongue, Pg.33-44)MR
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The language and cultural barriers that exist in this debate space that forces Latinas to be evaluated aesthetically by whiteness
 –Reid-Brinkley, 08 (Assistant Professor PhD and Debate Coach at University of Pittsburgh "THE HARSH REALITIES OF “ACTING BLACK”: HOW AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLICY DEBATERS NEGOTIATE REPRESENTATION THROUGH RACIAL PERFORMANCE AND STYLE" Chapter 3 pg 67-
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Not all ethnic minorities have the privilege  of assimilating to Anglo values
Ochoa 4 Gilda L. University of Texas Press, Austin, Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community, p.18-19
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Working within the current epistemology ensures the perpetuation of epistemic racism and sexism.
Grosfoguel, Professor of Diversity Studies at UC Berkeley, 2012    
(Ramon,"The Dilemmas of Ethnic Studies in the United States: Between Liberal Multiculturalism, Identity Politics, Disciplinary Colonization, and Decolonial Epistemologies," Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge: Vol. 10: Iss. 1, Article 9, pg 82-83 ,MR)
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This leads to epistemicide
Grosfoguel, Professor of Diversity Studies at UC Berkeley, 2012    
(Ramon,"The Dilemmas of Ethnic Studies in the United States: Between Liberal Multiculturalism, Identity Politics, Disciplinary Colonization, and Decolonial Epistemologies," Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge: Vol. 10: Iss. 1, Article 9, pg 83-84 ,MR)

Michelle y yo proponemos el uso de lenguaje como un método de resistencia.
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Language is key to preserve cultura and is a form of resistance.
Orelus, 2011
(Pierre W., Assistant professor at New Mexico State University, Encounter: Education for Meaning And Social Justice, Linguistic Apartheid and the English-Only Movement,Pg. 15-23)MR
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Language is a key tool that the colonized have
Orelus, 2011
(Pierre W., Assistant professor at New Mexico State University, Encounter: Education for Meaning And Social Justice, Linguistic Apartheid and the English-Only Movement,Pg. 15-23)MR
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Language is tied to the material.
Geoff Danaher, Tony Schirato, and Jen Webb, 2000, Understanding Foucault

Language reveals and undermines the system of power that has systematically excluded the validity of our discourse
Foucault, Michel, and Gilles Deleuze. 1977. “Intellectuals and power.” In Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews, edited by D.F. Bouchard. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.