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+The 1AC’s discourse of Africa as a continent is a western construction that perpetuates racism; this methodology equates Africa with western notions of mystery, darkness, savagery and barbarism. |
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+Austin 90 – (Sydney Byrn S. Bryn Austin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Department of Socail and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard University. Dr. Austin’s primary research is in the behavioral sciences and social epidemiology, addressing social and physical environmental influences on physical activity, nutritional patterns, and eating disorders risk in school and community settings. In addition, her research interests include lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adolescent health. "AIDS and Africa: United States Media and Racist Fantasy" Cultural Critique, No. 14, The Construction of Gender and Modes of Social Division II (Winter, 1989-1990), pp. 129-152) GHS//GB |
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+The notion, within … of the Other. |
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+Western definitions of African identity sustain a modern racial hierarchy–we must challenge these dehumanizing terms in order to restore African agency. |
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+Keita 99 (Lansana Ambassador of Guinea Conakry, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, “Africa and its Linguistic Problematic” http://www.quest-journal.net/Quest_1999_PDF_articles/Quest_13_keita.pdf) GHS//GB |
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+But this is … or Portugal respectively. |