Everyday commercial contact coexisted with total prohibition of residential and social mixing
Evidence
Commercial mingling came to mean no more than a steady labor supply, expanding control over land, and securing the supply of livestock. Residential mixing was soon to be more or less out of the question. Religious intercourse came to mind only on the road to conversion. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1419
Categorization
- XREF: Directly serves the reader’s ‘contact/institution gap’ research frame: economic contact happened precisely where privileged control (land, labor) was maintained, while residential mixing was barred - a vivid instance of contact coexisting with institutional discrimination on grounds of nativity/race. — connects to: Everyday interracial socializing coexists with unaddressed institutional and labor market discrimination — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 857; Social distance maintained by etiquette or replaced by spatial segregation undergirds hierarchy; Intergroup contact can reduce uncritical preference for one’s own group. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 563
- ADDENDUM: Exemplifies the contact/institution gap the reader is testing; a compact historical case where socializing in the marketplace did not translate into residential or religious equality.
Broader Connections
- Everyday interracial socializing coexists with unaddressed institutional and labor market discrimination
#exemplifies(0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 857 - Social distance maintained by etiquette or replaced by spatial segregation undergirds hierarchy
#expands(0.82) - Intergroup contact can reduce uncritical preference for one’s own group.
#corroborates(0.75) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 563