Cross-racial amity can coexist with everyday racism without negating it.

Evidence

Despite the richness of the social relations outlined above, Origins Combat Gym is no utopia, nor is it my intention to depict it as such. The carnal convivial connections fostered within the gym were forged against the wider backdrop of societal racisms and the shadow of Empire. In line with Gilroy’s sensitivity to the complexity of the everyday, my conceptualisation of carnal conviviality remains attuned to the messiness of lived working-class interactions and exchanges that are inherently “unruly” and “spontaneous” (Gilroy 2005), even amidst a social situation where people develop an “indifference to difference” (Amin 2013). As Valluvan reminds us, “it is certainly not the case that interactional routines of convivial multiculture are not prone to misfiring or free of communitarian contestation” (Valluvan 2016, 219). … Such misfirings were common place within my field-site, as they are in any settings where multicultural interactions are necessitated, ranging from harmless misunderstanding and misguided banter, to at times out-right racism. Yet, as I will argue, the misfirings did not undercut the broader carnal convivial spirit developed through fighting; they simply reflect the reality of the “metropolitan paradox” (Back 1996), where attempts at antiracism and transculturalism co-exist amidst the emergence of overt racism. — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 59

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘metropolitan paradox’ — antiracism coexisting with overt racism — resonates with the layered ambivalence depicted in Naqvi’s Home Boy and Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist. — connects to: Racialized nonracial issues can prime prejudice without overt racism. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2173; Racial prejudice can be primed without explicitly racist appeals — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2173; Multiculturalism and racism can coexist within the same national moment. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 157
• ADDENDUM: Complements the ‘On Sacrifice’ and dress-panic articles: here the ambivalence runs local and civic rather than moral or sacrificial.
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 59

Related

• Fighters shift from monocultural to multicultural lives, yet racism persists alongside conviviality (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Racialized nonracial issues can prime prejudice without overt racism. #corroborates (0.85) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2173
• Racial prejudice can be primed without explicitly racist appeals #corroborates (0.85) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2173
• Multiculturalism and racism can coexist within the same national moment. #corroborates (0.78) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 157