Racial-colonial governance shifted from spatial freezing to temporal freezing

Evidence

Before the Civil War, white enslavers kept Black people close at hand, in slave quarters where they could be closely monitored, in order to coerce their labor and guard against revolts. But with the abolition of slavery, the spatial relationship was reversed. Once they had no need to maintain constant watch over African Americans, white people wanted them out of sight. Public and private forces—city planners, local and state elected officials, federal housing program administrators, mortgage bankers, and real estate brokers—worked together to push African Americans into ghettos. The segregation we know today became the rule. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1195 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonialists freeze sociological differences into fixed biological natures to bar change — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 210; Tourist eco-enclaves can operate as racial and temporal islands frozen outside social change — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 503; Colonial spatial control derives its strength from flexibility, not rigidity (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Emancipation reversed the spatial logic of racial control from proximity to removal #complicates (0.75) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1195