Greater openness and heterogeneity actually refine, not reduce, racial segregation.

Evidence

Race continues to define, globally as domestically, where one can go, what one can do, how one is seen and treated, one’s social, economic, political, legal, and cultural, in short, one’s daily experience and prospects. Global circulation, like local city space, is increasingly contradictory: As there is greater heterogeneity and multiplicity, so segregation is refined; as visible openness and accessibility are enlarged, exclusionary totalization is extended; as interaction is increased, access is monitored, traversal policed, intercourse surveilled. As boundaries and borders become more permeable, they are re-fixed in the social imaginary, shifting from the visible to the virtual, from the formalized to the experiential, from the legal to the cultural at a time when the cultural, economically and socially, has become dominant. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 471

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the informalized segregation theme from earlier chapters of this book; also echoes the idea that borders re-fix in social imagination rather than physically. — connects to: Segregation was deliberately engineered through planning policy, not emergent preference. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 21
• ADDENDUM: Connects to the ‘Grafting & Growth’ piece only loosely, if at all — actually better placed as supporting the book’s own earlier argument about informalized segregation.