Everyday racial exclusion works through cumulative small bureaucratic acts that are easily denied

Evidence

The expected call does not come through. Upon return from the restaurant, later that evening, we check at the reception whether there has been a call at all, unwilling to believe that my colleague has forgotten about me. Our skepticism appears to have ground: the receptionist who had registered us had bluntly refused to file my name into the computer. The evening receptionist, a man of color, apologizes and corrects the exclusion immediately. Another receptionist, a white man who stands next to the “colored” receptionist, throws a hostile stare, disappears for a moment and returns with the message that he has checked with the operator: there has been absolutely no call that evening from anyone asking for a supposedly unlisted name anyway. Upon our profuse objections that there must have been a call, another white man sticks his head from behind a door in the back only to retreat immediately, but long enough for us to notice that the door he shuts behind him is that of the manager’s office. Displeased by the situation, we call the manager from our room. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1488

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete example of everyday racialized experience that could ground the definitional claims about racial formation and micro-level racial projects drawn from Omi & Winant that the vault already cites. — connects to: Small everyday discrimination acts accumulate into large power gaps between groups — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3194; Denying that racism occurs functions as a key mechanism of everyday racial repression — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1482; Everyday racism operates through familiar routine practices that actualize underlying racial relations — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1484 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Small everyday discrimination acts accumulate into large power gaps between groups #expands (0.95) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3194
• Everyday racism operates through familiar routine practices that actualize underlying racial relations #expands (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1484
• Denying that racism occurs functions as a key mechanism of everyday racial repression #corroborates (0.88) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1482
• Everyday racism is a continuous, often unconscious exercise of power that presupposes white privilege #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1466
• The racial state operates through invisible everyday osmotic penetration, not just visible force. #corroborates (0.75)
• Everyday racism’s harm scales with the perpetrator’s authority #expands (0.72)