[Week 8] The University as a Social Laboratory for Creating Ethnic Covers

Leslie Do
ASA 2, Dr. Valverde
TA: Josh Watkins, Section: A01
8th November 2015

The University as a Social Laboratory for Ethic Covers 

       
      Shifting away from the advancement of intellectual inquiry and investigations for the truth, universities (such as UC Davis) are becoming social laboratories for turning Asian American undergraduate students into ethnic covers as future lawmakers and policy makers. As a disclaimer, I understand that members from any racial group can become ethnic covers; however, since Asian Americans (both undergraduate students and graduate students) comprise of 39.1% of the student population at UC Davis, the institutional body of the administration have a surplus of potential Asian American ethnic covers to manipulate and control under the race, class, and gender dogma and professionalization orthodoxy being promoted to students at the student services center (Student Profile, 2015.) Coined and theorized by Professor Hamamoto, the term"ethnic cover" refers to non-White, highly educated professionals being selected and used (by the technocratic, governmental elites) as a strategic, representative front to support and create policies and laws that attack, subdue, and detain dissidents and civilians of color (Hamamoto, 204.) For instance, during the "Take Back Tuition" protests and #BlackLivesMatter protests of 2014 and 2015, the UCD administration weaponized "ethic cover" on campus by sending out administrative representatives of color to dissolve protests and dissents of color (whom are students and whom identify with the same the ethnic group as the ethnic covers) on campus.

Question

How are undergraduate, Asian American students being cultivated as ethic cover at student services center at UCD?

Citations

"Student Profile." UC Davis : Student Profile. UC Davis Undergraduate Admissions, 2015. Web. 08 Nov. 2015.

Hamamoto, Darrell Y. "Ethnic Cover: Inquiry into Norman Yoshio Mineta and Post-Racial Profiling." Servitors of Empire: Studies in the Dark Side of Asian America. Walterville: Trine Day, 2014. 204. Print.