Segregating others forces self-segregation and breeds fascination with the denied

Evidence

The history of segregating others reveals that it necessarily entails more or less extensively isolating oneself, that is, self-segregation. And like repression generally, this too effects a romantic fascination with the denied. Hence the lure to whites of Harlem at the heights of segregating America or of Sophiatown and District Six in apartheid South Africa. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 476 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Acceptance threat may be elicited by experiences of identity denial (e.g., to be perceived as not ‘Black enough’ or not ‘really Asian’; Campion 2019; Chen et al. 2019; Franco et al. 2016). This form of exclusion or rejection from a group may decrease Mixed individuals’ feelings of belonging to this group (Franco et al. 2021), which may in turn increase the need for it (Williams and Nida 2011). Ostracized individuals have been shown to try to reclaim belongingness by gaining re-inclusion in the excluding group (Williams 2007). — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 118 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Class self-segregation in cities makes citizens’ views of others hostage to fantasy — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 759; Segregating others inevitably means isolating oneself and breeds fascination with the denied — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 476; Hostile integration pressure makes voluntary self-segregation preferable for lower-status groups. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1130 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Segregating others inevitably means isolating oneself and breeds fascination with the denied #corroborates (1.00) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 476
• Ingroup rejection lowers belonging yet paradoxically heightens the need for it #complicates (0.70) — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 118