Tournament: Yale | Round: 2 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit NW | Judge: Mariana Colicchio
The aff's embrace of melancholia and fixation on the Asian identity doom their praxis to politics at the margins. Even if they profess to support coalition building, the melancholia inherent to their project makes true change impossible, and they fail to address the root cause of oppression among different oppressed bodies and instead embrace affectual gestures.
~Dean, Jodi. "Communist desire."The Ends of History. Routledge, 2013. 14-31.~ WWEY
An emphasis on the drive dimension of melancholia, on Freud's attention to the way
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set our expecting and desiring eyes on a different organization of social relationships."
Ontologizing the historical prevents an accurate account of oppression, rendering the aff meaningless and proving only the alt can solve. Wilkie12
Wilkie, Assistant Professor of Cultural and Digital Studies – U Wisconsin-La Crosse, '12
(Rob, "Capitalism's Posthuman Empire," The Red Critique Vol. 14, Fall/Winter)
Despite their differences, what each film relies on in re-writing the contradictions
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freedom and necessity, between the individual and the species" (84).
~Curry Stephenson Malott. "In Defense of Communism Against Critical Pedagogy, Capitalism, and Trump." Critical Education 8, no. 1 (2017).~ WWEY
In her discussion of the International Section of the Black Panther Party Kathleen Cleaver (
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not to provide a complete overview, but to spark the reader's interest.
The role of the ballot is consistency with the politics of comradery. This results in a clean break in capitalism that allows us to reimagine political work and transcend capital's limitations on what is possible and feasible. Absent this framing, all movements and coalitions inevitably collapse under the strain of competing interests and the lack of connection.
Jodi Dean 19 () "Comrade - An Essay on Political Belonging" Verso, 10-01-2019, http://library.lol/main/429C9EC2E2F0AA8DCC33FE2CC178B11D. Accessed 6-27-2021, WWEY
The comrade relation remakes the place from which one sees, what it is possible
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our common struggle. As former CPUSA member David Ross explained to Gornick:
Here in the debate space, an activity uniquely situated in its discussion of social issues and current events, the judge has a unique obligation as an educator to challenge the neoliberalism that pervades pedagogical and policymaking spaces.
Ball 17 Stephen J. Ball (Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology of Education at the University College London, Institute of Education. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2006; and is also Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences; and Society of Educational Studies, and a Laureate of Kappa Delta Phi; he has honorary doctorates from the Universities of Turku (Finland), and Leicester. He is co-founder and Managing Editor of the Journal of Education Policy), 2017, "Laboring to Relate: Neoliberalism, Embodied Policy, and Network Dynamics," Peabody Journal of Education, 92:1, 29-41, DOI: 10.1080/0161956X.2016.1264802, this part is pgs. 37-39
Within Ramya Venkataraman's writing and presentations, there is the deployment and reiteration of a
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mobilities are forged within the processes of reform and the work of networks.
Class politics solves and controls root cause – the model minority was constructed because of neoliberal imperialism and class fractures best explain deficiencies with the myth.
Jennifer Pan is a contributor to Jacobin, Dissent, the Margins, and other publications. 07.14.2015 https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/07/chua-changelab-nakagawa-model-minority
The United States's struggle for global ascendency after World War II and through the Cold
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wealth redistribution to attack the economic system that exploits and oppresses all workers.
Capitalism is the root cause of the model minority myth – it explains the criteria we use and Why white society views Asians that way.
Gans 05 (Herbert J., merican sociologist who has taught at Columbia University between 1971 and 2007, "Race as Class", Contexts 4:4, November 2005, University of Michigan Libraries)AS
In fact, the skin colors and facial features commonly used to define race are
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which does much to explain why we see them as a model minority.)