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ABSTRACT
An analysis of Stokely Carmichael’s dissociation of “racism” attempted at UC Berkeley on October 29, 1966 extends the utility of Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca’s “dissociation of concepts” for those seeking racial justice. I offer a new term “subversive dissociations” to theorize the foundations of racist dominant narratives as what Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca call “linguistic common property.” This move reframes dissociative challenges to dominant narratives as attempts to counter other dissociations and thus makes available a set of tools outlined in The New Rhetoric for that purpose. Dissociation emerges as a dynamic anti-racist strategy.
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Notes
1. For more on the Berkeley speech, see Joseph, Stokely 159; Bloom and Martin 39–42; CitationTrombley C1; CitationDavies 62; “CitationAmerican Is A Racist Nation” 4.
2. For more on the initial release of the phrase “Black Power” and its reception in national media, see; CitationBranch 486–495; Carson 215–228; Joseph, Stokely 114–139; Carmichael, Ready for Revolution 507–526.