Tournament: Greenhill RR | Round: 2 | Opponent: Westwood | Judge: Alston, Hertzig
Part 1 is the Framing
The obligation as the judge is to vote for the best debater that combats colonial violence. We are all settlers that have inhabited this land at cost of the bodies of Native Americans. Before engaging in any anti-racism and social justice, we must first combat the racism that has deprived natives their own land.
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“Why Racial Justice Work Needs to Address Settler Colonialism and Native Rights,” Rachel Kuo, Rachel Kuo is a scholar and educator based in New York City. Her professional background is in designing curriculum and also communications strategy for social justice education initiatives. Her writing and research interests include racial justice, media justice and digital media activism.
However, this opportunity …ndigenous issues more visible.
Settler colonialism is synonymous with white identity. The foundational upon all groups of marginalized people relies upon the concept of white identity forged through settler colonialism. Rupturing the colonialist narrative destroys the imperialist construction of white power.
Glenn 14’
“Settler Colonialism as Structure: A Framework for Comparative Studies of U.S. Race and Gender Formation,” Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Evelyn Nakano Glenn is a Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
In this section, … boundaries of citizenship.”
Part 2 is the Plight of Native Americans
Nuclear energy has a disproportionate impact on natives
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(Danielle Endres is an assistant professor and director of communication at the University of Utah. Endres has a B.A. (University of Oregon), M.A. (San Diego University), and a PhD from the University of Washington. Endres work is in the areas of environmental communication, science communication, social movements, and Native American rhetoric. The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision', Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2009, pp. 39 60. https://www.academia.edu/1750641/The_Rhetoric_of_Nuclear_Colonialism_Rhetorical_Exclusion_of_American_Indian_Arguments_in_the_Yucca_Mountain_Nuclear_Waste_Siting_Decision. 3/1/2009. EJW.)
Since the Manhattan Project… 1950s to the present.7
Native lands are the specifically targeted and result in exploitation of indigenous peoples.
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(Danielle Endres is an assistant professor and director of communication at the University of Utah. Endres has a B.A. (University of Oregon), M.A. (San Diego University), and a PhD from the University of Washington. Endres work is in the areas of environmental communication, science communication, social movements, and Native American rhetoric. The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision', Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2009, pp. 39 60. https://www.academia.edu/1750641/The_Rhetoric_of_Nuclear_Colonialism_Rhetorical_Exclusion_of_American_Indian_Arguments_in_the_Yucca_Mountain_Nuclear_Waste_Siting_Decision. 3/1/2009. EJW.)
BIA- negotiated leases…as a Discursive Phenomenon
Current policy deliberations over nuclear power erase the disproportionate impact nuclear power production has on Native lands—this rhetorical strategy of colonialism props up an unethical system of domination and forecloses any ethical debate on this topic
Endres 3’
(Danielle Endres is an assistant professor and director of communication at the University of Utah. Endres has a B.A. (University of Oregon), M.A. (San Diego University), and a PhD from the University of Washington. Endres work is in the areas of environmental communication, science communication, social movements, and Native American rhetoric. The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision', Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2009, pp. 39 60. https://www.academia.edu/1750641/The_Rhetoric_of_Nuclear_Colonialism_Rhetorical_Exclusion_of_American_Indian_Arguments_in_the_Yucca_Mountain_Nuclear_Waste_Siting_Decision. 3/1/2009. EJW.)
Although there is sufficient … widely engaged this topic.’’40
The rhetorical exclusion of natives excludes and limits the participation of American Indians—the aff is key. Colonialism relies upon the exclusion of these voices in order to prop up its legitimacy.
Endres 4’
(Danielle Endres is an assistant professor and director of communication at the University of Utah. Endres has a B.A. (University of Oregon), M.A. (San Diego University), and a PhD from the University of Washington. Endres work is in the areas of environmental communication, science communication, social movements, and Native American rhetoric. The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision', Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2009, pp. 39 60. https://www.academia.edu/1750641/The_Rhetoric_of_Nuclear_Colonialism_Rhetorical_Exclusion_of_American_Indian_Arguments_in_the_Yucca_Mountain_Nuclear_Waste_Siting_Decision. 3/1/2009. EJW.)
One of the reasons that nuclear … understanding of rhetorical exclusion.
Plan: the Western Shoshone Nation should ban all processes of nuclear production (mining, exploration, deploying, testing, etc).
Native resistance to nuclear production is an anti-colonial reassertion of sovereignty and changing the discourse surrounding Native nations and the nuclear power production process
Endres 5’
(Danielle Endres is an assistant professor and director of communication at the University of Utah. Endres has a B.A. (University of Oregon), M.A. (San Diego University), and a PhD from the University of Washington. Endres work is in the areas of environmental communication, science communication, social movements, and Native American rhetoric. The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision', Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2009, pp. 39 60. https://www.academia.edu/1750641/The_Rhetoric_of_Nuclear_Colonialism_Rhetorical_Exclusion_of_American_Indian_Arguments_in_the_Yucca_Mountain_Nuclear_Waste_Siting_Decision. 3/1/2009. EJW.)
American Indian resistance … the political definition.
Sovereignty is critical to create space for an alternative to traditional Euro-American domination-
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(Erich, Pitzer College Chicago Journals, “Settler Colonial Power and the American Indian Sovereignty Movement: Forms of Domination, Strategies of Transformation,” January 2012, JSTOR)
The Indian Sovereignty Movement… traditionalist elders (Steiner 1968).
Beyond the plan-text, our aff forces a confrontation with invisibilized colonialism and the rhetorical strategies that prop up system of domination.
Colonialism is the product of 500 years of oppression that deploys structural violence against indigenous peoples.
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Barsh, University of Lethbridge Native American studies professor, 1993
Russel, UN representative, Mikmaq Grand Council and Four Directions Council, Harvard JD, 26 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 277, “The Challenge of Indigenous Self-Determination” Lexis, accessed 3-22-13, TAP
If there is a…genuine self-determination.
