Leslie Do
ASA 2, Professor ValverdeTA: Josh Watkins, Section: A01
10/4/2015
"The Fake Left and Fake Right:" Technocractic Elites Engineer Race Wars
In their essay "Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse of Affirmation Action," Michael Omi and Dana Y. Takagi explains that some right-wing supporters have co-opted the rhetoric of affirmative action by claiming that affirmative action harms (or will harm) Asian Americans within the black and white paradigm (Omi & Takagi, 156.) The "hegemonic black and white paradigm" refers to the ideological symbolism of black and white (the color of one's skin,) where the US uses black as a social category to be deprived of human rights and subjected to surveillance and anti-black state-sanctioned violence. The same racist state also uses white as a social category of privilege, ideological supremacy, and state-sanctioned protection (Omi & Takagi, 155.) The non-black POC identities are categorized between the black and white paradigm arbitrarily by the white supremacist power holders in public policy and government. My critique of the essay "Situating Asian Americans" is that it doesn't discuss about the relationship between the right-wing rhetoric of affirmative action and technocratic elites' power of knowledge production in higher education. In the essay, there is no mention of how the political left and right are both serving the technocratic elites who are socially engineering race wars.
In their essay "Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse of Affirmation Action," Michael Omi and Dana Y. Takagi explains that some right-wing supporters have co-opted the rhetoric of affirmative action by claiming that affirmative action harms (or will harm) Asian Americans within the black and white paradigm (Omi & Takagi, 156.) The "hegemonic black and white paradigm" refers to the ideological symbolism of black and white (the color of one's skin,) where the US uses black as a social category to be deprived of human rights and subjected to surveillance and anti-black state-sanctioned violence. The same racist state also uses white as a social category of privilege, ideological supremacy, and state-sanctioned protection (Omi & Takagi, 155.) The non-black POC identities are categorized between the black and white paradigm arbitrarily by the white supremacist power holders in public policy and government. My critique of the essay "Situating Asian Americans" is that it doesn't discuss about the relationship between the right-wing rhetoric of affirmative action and technocratic elites' power of knowledge production in higher education. In the essay, there is no mention of how the political left and right are both serving the technocratic elites who are socially engineering race wars.
Citation
Omi, Michael, Dana Y. Takagi. "Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse of Affirmation Action," Representations. No.55. Special Issue: Race and Representation: Affirmative Action. (Summer, 1996). 155-156.
Question
How can we prevent ourselves from becoming unconscious consumption drones of higher education funded by technocratic elites in the US? What ideologies does the black/white paradigm reveal as well as hide?
Professor Hamamoto of UCD Asian American Studies speaks about the connection between race cults and the historical context of social engineering as facilitated by the Ford foundation and Rockerfeller foundation.
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