Segregation confined black-white female contact to the servant-served relation

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

When I asked individual white women who have friendships and positive work relations with black women in feminist settings what were the conditions enabling reciprocity, they responded by emphasizing that they had not relied on black women to force them to confront their racism. Somehow, assuming responsibility for examining their own responses to race was a precondition for relations on an equal footing. These women felt they approach women of color with knowledge about racism, not with guilt, shame, or fear. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 202 (#builds-on, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White women who did their own antiracist homework formed equal bonds with blacks — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 202; Forced proximity under rules of separation sustains racial disengagement without contact being absent — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1829; Racial order enforces social apartness despite forced physical proximity — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1829 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Forced proximity under rules of separation sustains racial disengagement without contact being absent #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1829
• Racial order enforces social apartness despite forced physical proximity #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1829