Forced close proximity and shared goals can flatten perceived racial differences.

Evidence

Although specific to training to fight, the carnal convivial connections I documented could equally have been produced within different settings where people are forced together in such close proximity that differences can be flattened out by virtue of engagement in a mutual task or commitment to a shared goal. Such new, and hopeful social relations must be fostered, but they do also emerge spontaneously all around us, often manifest as everyday forms of working-class conviviality that are “non-elite” (Rogaly 2020) in form and represent people’s attempts to see the human in the Other, in ways that bring into question essential notions of racial difference (see also Valluvan 2016; de Noronha 2022). — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 91

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in everyday sites where racialized hierarchy gets unsettled through shared embodied activity rather than political argument. — connects to: Intimate bodily togetherness flattens perceived racial difference — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 18; Racial order enforces social apartness despite forced physical proximity — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1829; Mere intergroup contact without equal status worsened racial prejudice (+2 more)
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 91

Related

• Intimate bodily togetherness flattens perceived racial difference (similarity 0.89)
• Shared combat training can erase racial and gendered hierarchies through bodily friendship. (similarity 0.82)
• Physical training to fight can forge bonds that resist racial thinking (similarity 0.81)
• Prejudice targets abstract racial categories more than concrete individuals in direct contact (similarity 0.80)
• Racial order enforces social apartness despite forced physical proximity (similarity 0.80)
• Frequent interracial contact alone did nothing to soften apartheid’s hierarchy. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Racial order enforces social apartness despite forced physical proximity #contradicts (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1829
• Racial category emphasis can obscure shared interests across racial lines #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 120
• Mere intergroup contact without equal status worsened racial prejudice #qualifies (0.78)
• Prejudice targets abstract racial categories more than concrete individuals in direct contact #expands (0.72) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2197