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+The 1AC’s understanding of what it means to be black is overly simplistic and fails to include certain experiences within its discussion. This means your narrative only counts in you fit into the 1AC’s model of blackness. This otherizes bodies that don’t fit into their definition and replicates the harms of antiblackness. |
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+Basu 12, Moni (CNN Digital reporter) December 9 “Black in America: It's not just about the color of your skin” CNN http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/09/black-in-america-its-not-just-about-the-color-of-your-skin/ SHSAM |
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+What is black? Race. Culture. Consciousness. History. Heritage. A |
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+says. Ultimately, she believes environment plays a big role in identity. |
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+This outweighs turns the case – a flawed understanding of oppression prevents successful anti-racism movements and severely limits acknowledgement of other forms of exclusion. |
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+Perea 97, University of Florida law professor, 1997 Juan, California Law Review, "The Black/White Binary Paradigm of Race," 85 Calif. L. Rev. 1213, l/n, accessed 2-21-10, mss |
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+One might object that I am distorting history by suggesting that slavery and the experience |
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+is so frequently missing from the texts that structure our thinking about race. |
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+Reject the 1AC – representations shape our social and political structures and rejection is key to resolving unequal power relations between social groups. |
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+Jackson ‘5 (Richard Jackson is Lecturer in International Politics at The University of Manchester, “Language Power and Politics: Critical Discourse Analysis and the War on Terrorism”, 49th Parallel Journal of North American Studies, Spring 2005) http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk/back/issue15/jackson1.htm |
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+The methodological approach I have employed to examine the official language of the ‘war |
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+president to senior ambassadors, as well as texts from the entire period. |