Everyday racial insignificance arises from practiced indifference, not denial of difference.
Evidence
It is an ‘insignificance’ which emerges from a well-accustomed ‘indifference’, not ‘non-difference’, which is at the centre of the post-integrationist ideal advanced by Farima. — Sivamohan Valluvan, Conviviality and Multiculture, 38
Categorization
- XREF: Distinguishing indifference-to-difference from non-difference connects to Gilroy’s conviviality thesis the author cites here. — connects to: Racism is defined by its practice, not by intensity or rationalization — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 189; Racism may not require presuming intrinsic inferiority of the other — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 64; Prejudice motivates exaggerated group differences, not the reverse. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 892
- corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Sivamohan Valluvan, Conviviality and Multiculture: A…, 38
Broader Connections
- Racism is defined by its practice, not by intensity or rationalization
#expands(0.82) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 189 - Racism may not require presuming intrinsic inferiority of the other
#expands(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 64 - Prejudice motivates exaggerated group differences, not the reverse.
#contradicts(0.72) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 892