Forced proximity under rules of separation sustains racial disengagement without contact being absent
Evidence
Disruption likewise resides in the insistence on a set of conditions to keep people socially, economically, recreationally, sexually apart – to restrict intercourse in every sense of the term – in a set of social affairs that persistently throws them together subject to constraining rules of what can or cannot be done together. That orders taboos and rules of regulation, prohibitions and permissions, that insists through the sociality of the skin on keeping people in awkward ways and degrees disengaged from each other, both within and across states. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1829
Categorization
- XREF: Directly serves the reader’s contact/institution gap question: everyday interracial socializing coexists with rules restricting shared activities. — connects to: Racial exclusion persists through institutions while personal relations integrate — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 909; Spatial and epistemic segregation persisted despite intimate daily contact. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1556; Racial order enforces social apartness despite forced physical proximity — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1829 (+10 more)
Broader Connections
- Racial order enforces social apartness despite forced physical proximity
#corroborates(0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1829 - Segregation functioned as ongoing racial control rather than total separation
#corroborates(0.85) - Segregation functions as a stratifying distance mechanism, not just hostility expression
#expands(0.80) - Closer proximity to whiteness can intensify exclusion rather than reduce it
#corroborates(0.80) — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 29 - Everyday interracial socializing coexists with unaddressed institutional and labor market discrimination
#exemplifies(0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 857