Anti-Blackness

Anti-Blackness

1. Policy focus is key to challenge structures of white supremacy
   Themba-Nixon 00, Executive Director of The Praxis Project, a nonprofit organization helping communities use media and policy advocacy
   Makani, July 31, Colorlines, Changing the Rules:  What Public Policy Means for Organizing, Vol 3.2)

2. The Perm Solves- overstating the effect of race ensures solidifies racial identities- ensures the alt doesn’t solve

Jane Carey (Postcolonialism Researcher, Monach U), Leigh Boucher (School of Modern History & PLS, Marquarie U), and Katherine Ellinghaus (School of Hist Studies, Monach U), Re-Orienting Whiteness (B) 2009

3. Using race as a starting point shatters class based coalitions and replicates racism
A. Darder and R. Torres, 1999.Darder is a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Latino/a Studies, Torres is Professor of Planning, Policy, and Design, Chicano/Latino Studies, and Political Science. “Shattering the Race Lens: Towards a Critical Theory of Racism.” Critical Ethnicity. P. 174-6
relations of power in society.

4. Impact Turn - Their epistemological framework is essentialist and totalizing – effaces the possibility for African communal politics
BÂ 11 (SAËR MATY, teaches film at Portsmouth University, “The US Decentred From Black Social Death to Cultural Transformation”, hthttp://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/article/view/2304/2474, Acc: 8/3/12, og)