Frequent interracial contact alone did nothing to soften apartheid’s hierarchy.
Evidence
Black and white lives intersected almost ubiquitously – in the home (overwhelmingly but not only of whites), at the workplace, in public space, even recreational sites, and to some degree in educational institutions. But those intersecting relations were not just deeply managed; they were as thoroughly ordered on hierarchical racial planes in their conceptual and organizational structure as they were behaviorally policed. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1552
Categorization
- XREF: Directly serves the contact/institution gap question driving this reading — compares to the interracial socialization vs. institutional discrimination gap central to this book’s thesis. — connects to: Mere intergroup contact without equal status worsened racial prejudice; Even under apartheid and segregation, intergroup contact reduced prejudice. — Thomas F. Pettigrew, Linda R. Tropp, A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup…, 227; Contact alone fails to reduce prejudice outside controlled conditions. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2491 (+1 more)
- ADDENDUM: Supports the ‘Grafting & Growth’ angle only incidentally; stronger fit is the general contact-hypothesis critique that recurs in ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ literature on proximity coexisting with hierarchy.
Broader Connections
- Mere intergroup contact without equal status worsened racial prejudice
#corroborates(0.85) - Contact alone fails to reduce prejudice outside controlled conditions.
#corroborates(0.85) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2491 - Even under apartheid and segregation, intergroup contact reduced prejudice.
#contradicts(0.80) — Thomas F. Pettigrew, Linda R. Tropp, A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup…, 227 - Contact alone does not enable fluent multi-ethnic interaction.
#expands(0.70) — Sivamohan Valluvan, Conviviality and Multiculture, 17