Blackness - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs argued that the title concept was merely a symptom of powerlessness in a book titled for this kind of “Rage.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this trait of those who experience “double consciousness” according to a book by W. E. B. Du Bois titled for “The Souls of” “Folk” with this trait.

ANSWER: Blackness [accept Black people; accept The Souls of Black Folk; accept Black Skin, White Masks; accept Black Rage; reject “African-American”]

[10h] In her essay “Killing Rage: Militant Response,” bell hooks accuses this thinker of tempering the title activist’s justice-driven rage and love in the essay “Malcolm X and Black Rage” from his collection Race Matters.

ANSWER: Cornel West [or Cornel Ronald West]

[10m] Myisha Cherry named a type of “inclusive” and “productive” rage after this thinker. This thinker advocated using Black rage to combat injustice in “The Uses of Anger,” which appears in the collection Sister Outsider alongside “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House.”

ANSWER: Audre Lorde [or Audrey Geraldine Lorde; accept Lordean rage]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
Canada	Main	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
Florida	Main	Y	13	13.85	85%	54%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	8.33	83%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	15.71	86%	43%	29%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	13.00	90%	30%	10%
North	Main	Y	11	16.36	82%	73%	9%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	13.33	92%	17%	25%
South Central	Main	Y	5	8.00	40%	40%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	10.00	83%	8%	8%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	15.00	100%	38%	13%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	14	12.86	86%	36%	7%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%
UK (North)	UK	N	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
UK (South)	UK	N	7	21.43	100%	71%	43%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley C	10	0	10	20
Berkeley E	Stanford A	10	0	10	20
Berkeley D	Stanford B	10	0	10	20
UCI	Claremont Pitzer	10	0	0	10
UCLA A	UCLA C	10	0	10	20
UCLA B	UCLA D	10	0	10	20
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	UCSB	10	0	0	10
USC	UCSD Vices and Virtues	10	0	0	10
Claremont Scripps	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	10	10	10	30
Berkeley F	Stanford C	10	0	0	10
Berkeley B	UCSC	10	10	10	30
Carleton	McGill C	10	0	10	20
Ottawa	McGill A	10	0	10	20
McGill B	Queen's A	10	0	0	10
McMaster B	Waterloo	0	0	0	0
Queen's B	Toronto E	10	0	10	20
Toronto A	McMaster A	10	0	10	20
Toronto B	Toronto C	10	0	10	20
Toronto G	Toronto F	10	0	10	20
Toronto H	Toronto I	10	0	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto J	10	0	0	10
McMaster C	Toronto K	10	0	0	10
Western Ontario	Guelph B	0	0	0	0
ERAU A	FIU	10	0	0	10
UF D	ERAU B	10	0	0	10
UCF A	FSU	10	0	0	10
UCF B	Melbourne A	10	0	0	10
UF C	UF A	0	0	0	0
UF B	UF E	10	0	0	10
CWRU A	OSU C	10	0	0	10
Pitt A	CWRU B	10	0	10	20
CWRU D	MSU B	10	0	0	10
Pitt C	Kenyon A	10	0	0	10
MSU A	CWRU C	10	0	10	20
OSU D	Kenyon B	0	10	0	10
OSU A	Pitt B	10	10	10	30
Guelph A	Toronto D	10	0	0	10
James Madison	Virginia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Clemson A	Liberty A	10	0	0	10
Liberty C	Virginia B	10	0	0	10
South Carolina A	South Carolina B	10	0	0	10
Tennessee A	Liberty B	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech B	Clemson B	10	0	0	10
Maryland D	Catholic University	0	0	0	0
George Washington A	UMBC A	10	0	10	20
Johns Hopkins C	George Washington B	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins B	George Mason C	0	0	0	0
Penn A	Maryland A	10	0	10	20
Maryland B	Penn B	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Maryland C	10	0	10	20
George Mason B	NYU A	10	0	10	20
NYU B	George Mason A	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame E	Georgetown B	10	0	10	20
VCU A	Georgetown A	10	0	10	20
Tennessee B	North Carolina B	0	0	0	0
North Carolina C	Roanoke	10	0	10	20
Tusculum	NC State	10	0	0	10
Virginia A	North Carolina A	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	Lehigh B	10	0	10	20
Columbia C	Lehigh A	10	0	0	10
Princeton A	Rutgers C	10	10	0	20
Swarthmore A	Rutgers B	10	0	10	20
Columbia A	Vassar A	10	0	10	20
SIUE	WashU B	10	0	0	10
Truman State	William Woods	10	0	10	20
WashU A	Missouri A	10	10	10	30
WashU C	WashU D	10	0	10	20
Chicago B	Chicago A	10	0	0	10
Chicago C	Notre Dame A	10	0	0	10
Chicago D	Louisville B	10	10	0	20
Illinois A	Illinois C	10	10	10	30
Michigan A	Indiana A	10	0	10	20
Michigan C	Illinois B	0	0	0	0
Michigan D	Purdue C	10	0	0	10
Louisville A	Notre Dame B	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame D	Indiana B	10	0	0	10
Michigan B	Purdue A	10	10	0	20
Purdue B	Notre Dame C	10	0	0	10
Kentucky	UIC	10	0	0	10
Minnesota C	Iowa State	0	0	0	0
Macalester A	Carleton	10	0	10	20
St. Thomas	Macalester B	0	0	0	0
Wisconsin	Minnesota A	10	0	0	10
BC B	Bowdoin A	0	0	0	0
BU	Bowdoin B	10	0	0	10
Amherst A	Brandeis Lloyd George	10	0	10	20
Brandeis Orlando	Brown B	10	0	0	10
Harvard	Dartmouth	10	10	0	20
Cornell-UG	MIT A	10	0	0	10
MIT B	Brandeis Wilson	10	0	0	10
Tufts A	Yale A	10	0	0	10
Yale B	Tufts B	0	0	0	0
Williams	Brown C	10	0	0	10
Brown A	Amherst B	10	0	0	10
Brandeis Clemenceau	BC A	10	0	0	10
Minnesota B	Nebraska	0	0	10	10
Texas A	Rose State	10	0	0	10
Alberta B	Ohio	10	10	0	20
Northwestern A	McGill D	10	0	10	20
Northwestern C	Tulsa	10	0	0	10
UCO	Arizona State B	10	0	0	10
Northwestern B	UTD A	10	0	0	10
Iowa	UTD B	10	0	10	20
Texas B	Arizona State A	10	0	10	20
Edinburgh A	Bristol B	10	0	10	20
Cambridge A	LSE B	10	0	10	20
Imperial B	Cambridge C	10	0	0	10
Cambridge D	Durham A	0	0	0	0
Birmingham A	City St George's A	10	0	0	10
Bristol A	Edinburgh B	10	0	10	20
Southampton A	Imperial C	10	10	0	20
Lancaster A	LSE A	10	0	0	10
Manchester A	Sheffield C	10	0	0	10
Warwick B	Manchester B	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Durham B	10	0	0	10
Sheffield A	Oxford B	10	0	10	20
Sheffield B	Cambridge B	10	0	0	10
Warwick A	Southampton B	10	0	0	10
Cornell-DII	Binghamton A	10	0	0	10
Binghamton B	Syracuse	0	0	0	0
RIT B	RIT A	10	0	0	10
Rochester	ESF	10	0	0	10