Segregating others inevitably means isolating oneself 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

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in How Racism Takes Place and the spatial logic of segregation — the self-isolation and allure mechanisms could enrich that discussion.
• DEEPTHINKING: The compact three-step mechanism — segregation entails self-segregation, repression breeds fascination, and the denied becomes the lure — is dense and counterintuitive, worth sitting with.