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+The endpoint of the 1AC is the antiblack status quo – blackness is defined in terms of an ontological structural antagonism with white civil society that is reproduced by any attempt to use existing legal structures or philosophies. Warren 13 |
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+Calvin Warren, Onticide: Toward an Afro-pessimistic Queer Theory" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, 2013. NS |
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+We could suggest... field of existence. |
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+In its ontological absence the black is a fungible object open to gratuitous violence and void of relational capacity. R.L. 13 |
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+R.L., WANDERINGS OF THE SLAVE: BLACK LIFE AND SOCIAL DEATH, 2013, |
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+For the Afro-pessimists,... of black existence. |
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+1. Democracy’s freedom is rendered coherent by the incoherence of the black matrix’s captivity – physical and psychological sexual terror are hidden beneath the dominant narrative of “improvement”. James 13 |
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+Joy James. "Afrarealism and the Black Matrix: Maroon Philosophy at Democracy's Border." The Black Scholar 43.4 (2013): 124-31. Web EE |
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+Afrarealism recognizes two... well as justice. |
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+2. The demand for legal relief is the perfection of slavery, making the slave bow down to the master. Farley 05 |
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+Anthony. Prof. Farley specializes in Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure and Legal Theory. Taught at Boston College Before Teaching at Albany “Perfecting Slavery” Page 221-222. NS |
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+Slavery is with... for an answer. |
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+3. Legal solutions to human rights issues are insufficient and fail to recognize the history of racist laws that perpetuated anti-black violence. Henderson 9 |
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+Carol E. Henderson, B.A. University of California, Los Angeles; M.A. California State University of Dominguez Hills; Ph.D. University of California, Riverside, America and the Black Body: Identity Politics in Print and Visual Culture, page 30-31, Rosemont Publishing |
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+ANGLO-AMERICAN JURISPRUDENCE.... hierarchy and oppression. |
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+4. A focus on police brutality misses the point and forecloses analysis of the larger system of anti blackness. We should move away form giving civil society bite size pieces of “coherent” analysis. Wilderson 14 |
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+Frank Wilderson, “We’re trying to destroy the world” Anti-Blackness and Police Violence After Ferguson An Interview with Frank B. Wilderson, III, 2014. NS |
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+5. Assemblages are inaccessible to blacks – blackness in a static identity imposed on bodies by their structural location. Power is not the relationship between individuals it is the relationship between blackness and the state. Douglass and Wilderson 13 |
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+(Patrice, Patrice Douglass is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Irvine, Her work explores the relationship between sexual violence and black subjection under slavery as a theoretical framework to think through the position of blackness within contemporary political theory. Frank B. Wilderon III is a professor of African-American studies and drama at the University of California, Irvine – straight up shot racists, “The Violence of Presence: Metaphysics in a Blackened World.” The Black Scholar, Vol. 43, No. 4, Special Issue: Role of Black Philosophy (Winter 2013), Pages 117-123. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5816/blackscholar.43.4.0117) |
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+6. Becoming is a privileged project that relegates blackness to a permanent state of deterritorialized identity marked by difference from the majority. Nealon 98 |
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+Professor of English and Philosophy, Penn State University (Jeffrey Thomas Nealon, 1998, Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative Subjectivity, Duke University Press, p. 129, edge – malia) |
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+Thus the alternative is to embrace the demand of the slave - the end of the world. Wilderson 02 |
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+Frank Wilderson, The Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal, resented at Imprisoned Intellectuals Conference Brown University, April 13th 2002. NS |
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+If we are... to the death. |
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+Recognizing that blackness is pathologized is key to embracing social life in social death. Sexton 11 |
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+Jared Sexton, ANTE-ANTI-BLACKNESS: AFTERTHOUGHTS, Cultural Studies Association Issue 1, 2011. NS |
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+Against the raceless... than" black optimism. 24 |
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+Framing issue. Their refusal to engage in discussions of the way that anti-blackness shapes the world will lose them this debate. Sexton 16 |
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+Jared Sexton, Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, associate professor of African American Studies and Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine, “Afro-Pessimism: The Unclear Word,” Rhizomes issue 19,sections 1-8 |
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+- A shift away from politics of inclusion is the only real ethical move |
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+- Pessimism is a political position that we need to use to understand the world |
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