NEG Cites from Doubles against West Georgia GR
The slave cannot be understood as a single subject category. It consists of many horrific experiences beyond what can be named but yet not possible to explain with total abjection. This erases struggles of resistance. The praxis of spirits colliding in a historically and geographically specific time, as the tides carry bodies across the current.
Tinsley 08 [Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley is an assistant professor in the departments of English and African American studies at the University of Minnesota, “Black Atlantic, Queer Atlantic: Queer Imaginings of the Middle Passage” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, projectmuse]
And water, ocean water… while refusing its transparency.2
The ocean emerges as a site of transformation, but this transformation is not one of inifinite possibilities. It is instead limited by the material realities. The journey across the Atlantic proved brutal, even for those whose passage was a choice. The hardships notably intensify for the slave-bodies. Still, even in utmost abjection emerges further resistance.
Tinsley 08 [Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley is an assistant professor in the departments of English and African American studies at the University of Minnesota, “Black Atlantic, Queer Atlantic: Queer Imaginings of the Middle Passage” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, projectmuse]
But this bloody Atlantic was also… Equiano's first glimpse of the sea.
The move away from identity towards assemblage frees us from the oppression of authenticity, where blackness is held as an ideal paradigm, defining the possibility for restistance.
Pabst 03 (Naomi, Blackness/Mixedness
Contestations over Crossing Signs
Cultural Critique 54 (2003) 178-212)
Rather than negotiating the breadth… the conundrums and paradoxes of race.
The concept of social death allows us to paint ideal victims – it reduces people to their least common denominator
Brown 09 [Vincent, Professor of History and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University, Social Death and Political Life in the Study of Slavery, American Historical Review, December 2009]
Slavery and Social Death… struggles that produce historic transformations.7
This causes annihilation of the other.
Ciano Aydin lecturer in Phil @ Radbound U "Nietzsche on Reality as Will to Power: Towards and Organization-Struggle' Model." The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 33. Spring 2007.
Bush continues, “Great harm has… state in response to national victimization.
Speaking as if oppressed are socially dead ignores the radical communities that form in order to challenge oppression in the first place – we reject the descriptor and method of describing individuals as socially dead, while embracing a methodology that examines social location and structural oppression forces us to disclose stories of success – of how individuals embrace LIFE and affirmed their own dignity.
Brown 09 [Vincent, Professor of History and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University, Social Death and Political Life in the Study of Slavery, American Historical Review, December 2009]
Specters of the Atlantic is self-consciously a work of theor… what the enslaved actually made of their situation.
They create a homogenous black body, ignoring the multiplicities of identity that shape oppression
Clarence Lusane 2004
Bynoe, cultural critic, political analyst and public speaker, 2004(Yvonne, Stand & Deliver: Political actiism, leadership and Hip Hop culture 74-75)
Clarence Lusane: It is important, I believe… black America has warped its leadership and political capabilities.
Juan F. Perea , October 1997, “RACE, ETHNICITY & NATIONHOOD: ARTICLE: The Black/White Binary Paradigm of Race:
The "Normal Science" of American Racial Thought”, California Law Review
[*1214] This Article is about how we… evolving understanding of race and race relations.
People of Color in Predominantly White Institutions, 4th annual conference, 1999, “Reconceptualizing Social Justice at the intersections from a LatCrit Perspective”, University of Nebraska Lincoln
Our group, guided by Latino Critical Race Theory (LatCrit),… the narratives of other People of Color to be heard.
Leslie Espinoza and Angela P. Harris, 1997, California Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 5, LatCrit: Latinas/os and the Law: A Joint Symposium by "California Law Review" and "La Raza Law Journal" (Oct., 1997), pp. 1585-1645
LatCrits posit that by not complicating our… racism in all its manifestations.
Leslie Espinoza and Angela P. Harris, 1997, California Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 5, LatCrit: Latinas/os and the Law: A Joint Symposium by "California Law Review" and "La Raza Law Journal" (Oct., 1997), pp. 1585-1645
The papers in this Symposium are about borders. The papers… and ultimately this leaves Latino/as themselves powerless.
Wilderson builds his ideas of libidinal economy off of Jared Sexton – it relies upon a notion of the PSYCHE
Wilderson page 6 the book in 10
(Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the structure of U.S. Antagonisms, )
Jared Sexton describes libidinal economy as “the economy, or distribution… mobility and tenacious fixation.”
Their psychoanalysis traps us in tautology. Any disagreement is interpreted as “resistance,” trapping us in a cycle of domination masquerading as criticism
Brickman ‘3
[Celia (Center for Religion and Psychotherapy of Chicago, PhD in Religion and the Human Sciences at the University of Chicago); Aboriginal Populations in the Mind: Race and Primitivity in Psychoanalysis; Columbia University Press; New York; p. 192-3 //nick]
This adversarial configuration of the analytic relationship arises… —the locating of a subject in a position of subordination.
Afro-futurism is a comparatively better methodology for liberation of blackness – it recognizes the constructive agency of the individual against the backdrop of futurism
Akpem and Womack 11
(D.Denenge Akpem is a performance artist, designer and educator. In addition to Black Arts Movement, she is teaching a new course entitled “Afro-Futurism: Pathways to Black Liberation” at Columbia College Chicago; Ytasha Womack is filmmaker, journalist and author of "Post Black: How A New Generation is Redefining African American Identity"; “What is Afro-Futurism,” November 25, http://www.afrofutures.com/magazine/2011/11/what-is-afro-futurism/)
YLW: I think it’s really interesting that you’re teaching… a future with the goal of creative transformation for self and planet.
Afro-futurism is a key avenue of resistance for all races – it reconceptualizes race as something inherently positive
Akpem and Womack 11
(D.Denenge Akpem is a performance artist, designer and educator. In addition to Black Arts Movement, she is teaching a new course entitled “Afro-Futurism: Pathways to Black Liberation” at Columbia College Chicago; Ytasha Womack is filmmaker, journalist and author of "Post Black: How A New Generation is Redefining African American Identity"; “What is Afro-Futurism,” November 25, http://www.afrofutures.com/magazine/2011/11/what-is-afro-futurism/)
DA: I’m really interested in the idea of race, in notions of beauty and expression in culture. Obviously, the subtitle… generations in this country. I’m interested to see how the Afro-Futurist discourse relates to all of that.
None of this is to deny the reality of social death- it existed as the threat that existed upon the horizon of the slave’s existence and the ever-evasive goal on the horizon of the master’s existence. Understanding social death as a frame for meaning rather than an ontological conditional offers a better way to understand both the horrors of slavery as a system and the struggles and affirmations of the slave.
Brown 09 [Vincent, Professor of History and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University, Social Death and Political Life in the Study of Slavery, American Historical Review, December 2009]
Like Hartman, Smallwood sees social death as a by-product… of slave politics is not simply the power of slaveholders, but the very terms and conditions of social existence.
it moots our internal criticism of your strategy – this is the only way to call out essentialist assumptions within movements; otherwise racism, patriarchy, and heterosexism remain internalized and unchallenged
Darren Lenard Hutchinson , 1999, Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist University School of Law, “BEYOND THE RHETORIC OF "DIRTY LAUNDRY": EXAMINING THE VALUE OF INTERNAL CRITICISM WITHIN PROGRESSIVE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES”, 5 Mich. J. Race & L. 185, Michigan Journal of Race & Law
The vast terrain of "identity politics" has been the …- for minimizing the potentially negative effects of internal criticism and for advancing a more inclusive conceptualization of justice
Juan F. Perea , October 1997, “RACE, ETHNICITY & NATIONHOOD: ARTICLE: The Black/White Binary Paradigm of Race:
The "Normal Science" of American Racial Thought”, California Law Review
Paradigms of race shape our understanding… the binary paradigm with a slight concession to demographics.
Juan F. Perea , October 1997, “RACE, ETHNICITY & NATIONHOOD: ARTICLE: The Black/White Binary Paradigm of Race:
The "Normal Science" of American Racial Thought”, California Law Review
The Black/White Binary Paradigm of race has become the subject of increasing interest and scrutiny among some scholars of color…. our abilities to understand each other and to join together to fight the common evil of racism.
[Celia (Center for Religion and Psychotherapy of Chicago, PhD in Religion and the Human Sciences at the University of Chicago); Aboriginal Populations in the Mind: Race and Primitivity in Psychoanalysis; Columbia University Press; New York; p. 118-119 //nick]
But a subjectivity (psychoanalytically conceived of as) emerging through… maternal one refuses the possibility of speaking, of being heard, of becoming a subject at all.