Racial order enforces social apartness despite forced physical proximity

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

• DEFINE: Defines racial disruption as regulated social distance enforced even while bodies are thrown together.
• XREF: connects to: Intimate bodily togetherness flattens perceived racial difference — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 18; Forced close proximity and shared goals can flatten perceived racial differences. — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 91; Racial exclusion persists through institutions while personal relations integrate — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 909 (+3 more)