Commodity Diversity: Smiling Faces as a Strategy of Containment
分析一张常见的多样性宣传照片（人脸马赛克），指出它表面上承认差异，实则通过同质化网格将差异商品化，以此安抚白人和压制少数群体的政治对抗，是一种遏制策略。
Arguing that commodities used in diversity management are relatively under-researched, this article examines a popular diversity image—a photograph of diversity as a mosaic—in order to explore what it can tell us about how racial difference is represented visually. In its close reading of the composition of the picture, the article argues that this diversity image acknowledges difference while at the same time it actually homogenizes it. The mosaic inscribes difference within a sameness grid and commodifies it. In so doing, it attempts to disable any political antagonism from minoritized groups, and placate the imagined white viewer, operating as a strategy of containment. The article contributes to critical diversity studies by drawing attention to visual techniques as technologies of ‘race making’ and visual images as important sites of power struggle.