Tournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Iowa HK | Judge: Paone, Wash, Schultz
Arenas like debate and academia is a constant surveillance, exploration and cultural re-appropriation of blackness and the blackbody via white gaze, which positions black performativity in these arenas as psychological war within the black self, foreclosing black political agency in an opaque destruction of the Black by the white other.
Wilderson 11 (Frank B, Professor of African-American Studies/Drama at UC Irvine, “The Vengeance of Vertigo: Aphasia and Abjection in the Political Trials of Black Insurgents”, (De) Fatalizing the Present and Creating Radical Alternative Journals Issue 5.0, C.A.)
Ritual murders which purge White aggressivity subtend Bukhari’s …and affilial (or institutional) relations.
Your Performance merely functions as an attempt at black, respectability and credibility never truly embodying the black struggle or resistance. This symbolic violence makes blackness a commodity for white economies where images of racialized violence are demanded and reappropriates spaces like debate where the only real resistance is imaginary for the black body.
Mann, Regis Marlene. (2013). Unsung, Unwavering: Nineteenth-Century Black Women's Epistemologies and the Liberal Problematic. UC Riverside: English. Retrieved from: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/72m46234
Importantly, many of the previous histories …of black articulacy previously overlooked.
Their attempt at positionality is only interpellated by academia the. The proposition that a ballot in this debate round can actually change anything ignores the coordinates of power and knowledge at play the only thing they do is feed more ammo to the machine
Occupied UC Berkeley 09, 11/19/09, (“The Necrosocial: Civic Life, Social Death, and the UC”, http://anticapitalprojects.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/the-necrosocial/, AW)
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Yes, very much a cemetery. Only here there…dead we are willing to play, how non-existent, how compliant, how desirous.
They force a level of impossible empathetic identification, that makes white bodies take the positionality of blacknees inorder for your performance/suffering to be meaningful this makes black bodies commodities in white economies
Mann, Regis Marlene. (2013). Unsung, Unwavering: Nineteenth-Century Black Women's Epistemologies and the Liberal Problematic. UC Riverside: English. Retrieved from: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/72m46234
Much of this also coincides with an …persistently serve as fungible commodities for white economies, material and¶ ideological (Hartman 19).
The Debate space will consume the impact is genocide
DR. WRIGHT Clinical Psychologist 1984 Bobby-Director of the Garfield Park Comprehensive Community Health Center in Chicago (a Mental Health Center); The Psychopathic Racial Personality: and other essays; p. 1-2
In a bullfight, after being brutalized while … by overwhelming scientific evidence (Delany, 1968; Du Bois, 1896; Fanon, 1963; Garvey, 1967; Welsing, 1991; Williams, 1971).¶
THESE REPRESENTATIONS OF SUFFERING, THROUGH VIOLENT NARRATIONS OPERATIONALIZES WHITENESS BY ENACTING TRAUMA ON YOUTH. BY BEING BOTH THE SPECTOR AND SPECTACLE, THE BLACK CHILD INHERITS A RESSENTIMENT FILLED SENTIMENT THAT SEEKS AND IMAGINES HER OWN DEMISE. THIS IMAGINING OF SELF-DESTRUCTION, IS HOW WHITENESS OPERATIONALIZES AND SUSTAINS ITSELF
David Marriott 2000 (On Black Men: ‘I’m gonna borer me a Kodak’:Photography and Lynching pages 12-14)
They are public portraits: posed, compelling, an exhibition and narration of …looking, and then looking away, from what the white men have done.
The debate space is an activity only replicated violence by presenting suffering – the university will only consume these narratives – thus we must have a politics of refusal.
Tuck and Yang 2014 Eve, and K.W., “R-Words: Refusing Research.” In n D. Paris and M. T. Winn (Eds.) Humanizing research: Decolonizing qualitative inquiry with youth and communities (pp. 223-248). Thousand Oakes, CA: Sage Publications. Pp. 223-6
Research is a dirty word among many Native communities… con