Racism persists covertly after formal prohibitions end

Evidence

A relevant argument can be that the complications we have identified are consistent over time - postapartheid is still oversensitive to mixed couples. There is consistency over situations - under apartheid any hotel could have openly refused to allow a woman of color in an upscale (white) hotel, today refusal is off limits, but personnel may still attempt to make one’s stay an unpleasant one. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1506

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the pattern of formal rule change without behavioral change, like the law-merchant literature’s shift from overt to covert enforcement. — connects to: Racism’s modes persist after being severed from their categories of meaning — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1867; Racial dog whistles replaced explicit slurs after the civil rights movement — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 89; Civil-rights laws reduced blatant racism but left subtler discrimination intact (+3 more)
• ADDENDUM: Complements the argurade about how legal prohibition shifts rather than eliminates power dynamics — parallels sumptuary law analyses where the norm survives the rule.