Everyday interracial socializing coexists with unaddressed institutional and labor market discrimination

Evidence

The first concerned the growing socialization of interracial intercourse in everyday casual relations even as institutional and especially labor market discrimination remained substantively unaddressed. Of course, antidiscrimination law was formalized in policy, only to be largely ignored in application. But daily racial interactions, friendships, relationships, romances – social intercourse writ large – became a matter of course, as happily unremarked as appealingly unremarkable. Black and brown and mixed presence on the street, in stores, in schools, even if not quite at the university, in the boardroom, in the chamber of commerce. Few seem to notice. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 857

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ‘racial evaporation’ thesis as social-intercourse egalitarianism masking structural exclusion — resonates with claims about post-racialism in American discourse. — connects to: Everyday multiethnic contact complicates, yet coexists with, media-amplified racial prejudices. — Sivamohan Valluvan, Conviviality and Multiculture: A…, 73; Racial exclusion persists through institutions while personal relations integrate — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 909; Everyday commercial contact coexisted with total prohibition of residential and social mixing — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1419 (+6 more)