Allport underrated avoidance as a form of harmful discrimination

Evidence

Allport defined discrimination as the denial of equal treatment on the basis of group membership. His examples centered heavily on race and reflected the historical era in which he was writing, focusing on “restrictive covenants, boycotts, neighborhood pressure, legal segregation, ‘gentlemen’s agreements’” as “devices for discrimination” (Allport, 1954/1979, p. 51). Oddly, he did not consider avoidance to be discrimination or even to be especially harmful (a sadly outdated view in light of the bitter ramifications of “White flight” subsequently experienced in American neighborhoods and schools). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 643

Categorization

• XREF: Avoidance-as-discrimination connects to the vault’s contact-theory claims via residential segregation and white flight undermining cross-group contact.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 643