Re-Conceptualizing our Performances: Accountability in Lincoln Douglas Debate
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Re-Conceptualizing our Performances: Accountability in Lincoln Douglas Debate Christopher J. Vincent 10/26/2013 It is becoming increasingly more apparent in Lincoln Douglas debate that students of color are being held to a higher threshold of proving why racism is bad, than white students are in being forced to justify their actions and in round discourse. The abstractness of philosophical texts being used in LD and the willingness of judges and coaches alike to endorse that abstractness has fostered a climate in which students are allowed to be divorced from the discourse they are producing. Debate should first and foremost be viewed as a performance. Every action taken, every word said, and every speech given reflects a
Re-Conceptualizing our Performances: Accountability in Lincoln Douglas Debate
Re-Conceptualizing our Performances…
Re-Conceptualizing our Performances: Accountability in Lincoln Douglas Debate
Re-Conceptualizing our Performances: Accountability in Lincoln Douglas Debate Christopher J. Vincent 10/26/2013 It is becoming increasingly more apparent in Lincoln Douglas debate that students of color are being held to a higher threshold of proving why racism is bad, than white students are in being forced to justify their actions and in round discourse. The abstractness of philosophical texts being used in LD and the willingness of judges and coaches alike to endorse that abstractness has fostered a climate in which students are allowed to be divorced from the discourse they are producing. Debate should first and foremost be viewed as a performance. Every action taken, every word said, and every speech given reflects a