"Equally if not more problematic [than quietism] is "assimilative escapism," neither honestly embracing nor actively opposing oppression but simply trying to stay out of the oppressors' way-by using the oppressors' definition of success, beauty, intelligence, and reason to disguise the provenance of the parameters that define and circumscribe one's life, all the while feverishly toiling to neutralize the oppressive weight of the oppressors' expectations by dressing these up in failed appropriations that render one a more fervent and exaggerated proponent of the oppressors' values than the oppressors themselves. The result is that oppression is neither confronted and overcome by resistance nor embraced through quietism but merely sidestepped and placed beyond critique through a mildly deliberate agnosia that impedes one's ability to recognize or acknowledge the normalized domination that circumscribes one's life."
-pg. 72 of Dr. Sherman Abdal-Hakim Jackson's new book: Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering (2009)
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