A co-opted spokesperson’s assimilation shames rather than liberates those they claim to represent

Evidence

By becoming a house Muslim he has cast me into the site of the field Muslim. I look at the native informer, at the Muslim native informer, and once again I am ashamed of me—for in him I see me subjected, defeated, humiliated, embarrassed. I fight a fight he has already conceded, she has already lost—lost so completely she does not even remember the fight. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 636

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the ‘house Muslim’ vs ‘field Muslim’ dichotomy — the book’s titular conceptual frame.
• XREF: Connects to the ‘house Negro/field Negro’ distinction from the Black American tradition which this inverts and renames. — connects to: Benevolent assimilation further humiliates the person it claims to equalize — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 117

Related

• Native informers humiliate their own communities by conceding defeat in advance (similarity 0.79)