01567nam a2200169 4500999001900000008004100019100002200060245007800082260000900160300001500169520102800184650002001212773001701232906002801249942001201277952010801289 c510913d510913190904b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d aDar, Sadhvi99666 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. aDiversity99667 aOrganization aRacism - United Kingdom 2ddccAR 00102ddc40709384854aIIPAbIIPAd2019-09-04h26(3), May, 2019: p.432-446.pAR120750r2019-09-04yAR