Close proximity to the colonized intensified settlers’ drive for racial distinction

Evidence

Proximity to the indigenous and the mixed – spatially, occupationally, in terms of certain cultural habits such as clothing, food consumption, living conditions – reinforced the need for distinction, for stressing symbolic distance and social self-elevation. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1370

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with the immodesty chapter’s point that boundary-marking intensifies when groups live in close physical proximity. — connects to: Settler identity depends constitutively on the colonized it wishes to erase. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 2105; Racism supplied the ideological license for US settler-colonial expansion.; The settler class claimed an Irish identity that excluded Irish natives — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 131