Intrachurch interaction was governed by status-unequal decorum protocols

Evidence

Such a focus reveals racial solidarity and racial self-determination; it also reveals gender conflict and women’s assertions of female solidarity and gender self-determination. The process of discursive interaction between church men and women discloses what Nancy Fraser terms in another context “intrapublic relations,” or an interaction “governed by protocols of style and decorum that were themselves correlates and markers of status inequality.” — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 250

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Introduces ‘intrapublic relations’ to name how style and decorum encode status inequality within a subaltern group.
  • XREF: Connects to the coined ‘politics of respectability’ the reader is pursuing — decorum as internal status marker. — connects to: Optimal intergroup contact requires equal status, shared goals, and community sanction — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years
, 540; Comment sections are governed by a host-guest logic of reciprocal obligation — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished
, 2362; Even deliberately inclusive identity spaces mute internal difference to achieve consensus — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian
, 517 (+3 more)

Broader Connections