Tournament: Greenhill RR | Round: 2 | Opponent: Northland Christian LB | Judge: Panel
Blackness is the embodiment of metaphysical nothingness and any attempt to liberate Black folk or make the world better that does not start with a theorization against the world itself will reproduce the antiblackness they try to resolve. Thus, the role of the ballot is to endorse the best strategy for rupturing metaphysics. The role of the judge is to evaluate the best Black scholarship produced to analyzed Black suffering
Warren ’18 (Calvin Warren, Calvin Warren is an Assistant Professor in WGSS. He received his B.A. in Rhetoric/Philosophy (College Scholar) from Cornell University and his MA and Ph.D. in African American/American Studies from Yale University, 2018, Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation) B1ACK ZD
For the Black
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to capture it.
The affirmative’s use of analyzing present pandemics to forecast future pandemics as well as vaccine tactics are geographies of whiteness that shape white supremacy and racial control
Baldwin 12, Andrew. (2012). Whiteness and futurity: Towards a research agenda. Progress in Human Geography, 36(2), 172–187. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132511414603 Associate Professor in Human Geography, Durham University; My research examines the intersections of race, nature and geography with a specific current focus on the ways in which discourses and practices of climate change and migration relate to questions of humanism, posthumanism, politics, culture, urbanism and the Anthropocene B1ACK ZD
This essay argues
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expression of whitenesses.
The alt is radical negativity-The very act of affirmation is antiblack, one must negate the negation to escape the realms of antiblackness
Wilderson 17, Frank. Frank B Wilderson III is an American writer, dramatist, filmmaker and critic. He is a full professor of Drama and African American studies at the University of California, Irvine. “Afropessimism An Intro” Racked and Dispatched, September 2017. B1ACK ZD
The distinction that Afro-pessimism
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subjects in society.