01340nam a2200121   4500008004100000100001600041245007800057260000900135300001500144520102800159650001401187773001701201190904b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aDar, Sadhvi  aThe masque of Blackness: Or, performing assimilation in the white academe  c2019  ap.432-446.  a‘Diversity’ is a dangerous misnomer in the white academe because the idea fails to recognize the politics of Whiteness that structure a spectrum of assimilation academics of colour are positioned by. Taking the title and plotline from the Jacobean masque written by Ben Jonson in 1605, this revisionist play sets out to consider the politics of assimilation academics of colour perform in their daily lives. Drawing on Black liberation and anti-racist literature, the play draws attention to how Black and Brown bodies that are asked to perform and use voice daringly or silence instrumentally to leverage degrees of assimilation into white structures. The play first, questions the ontology of foreignness by reflecting on the colonized history of the Black body becoming assimilated into Whiteness, and second, it provides a counter-narrative to those who experience perpetual exclusion and racism at work while other academics of colour seem to become accepted and even celebrated by white hierarchies. - Reproduced.  aDiversity  aOrganization