Spatial and epistemic segregation persisted despite intimate daily contact.

Evidence

White men and women could declare solutions to insoluble political situations half a world away while oblivious to conditions in black townships barely a stone’s throw from home. They could drive by endless miles of shantytown shacks invisible to their gaze while bemoaning how terrible the favelas in São Paulo or the bustees of Bombay. They could decry the petty crime of black youth seeking to survive in total ignorance of the serious crimes of racially inscribed sociality. And they could claim absolute “knowledge” of “the black man” – the “kafir” – completely ignorant of the most basic conditions under which black people survived right before their eyes. To live as a white person in apartheid South Africa was to live a life of more or less large-scale, if never perfect, denial. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1556

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Direct counter-evidence to the contact hypothesis central to the reader’s contact/institution gap research — proximity created no accurate knowledge of the other’s condition.
• XREF: Echoes the privileged blindness mechanism in Vidal’s Eighteen Seventy and the willed ignorance pattern analyzed in ‘On Sacrifice’ regarding hierarchy maintenance. — connects to: Social distance maintained by etiquette or replaced by spatial segregation undergirds hierarchy; Forced proximity under rules of separation sustains racial disengagement without contact being absent — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1829; Segregation persisting above 60 signals involuntary discrimination (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Forced proximity under rules of separation sustains racial disengagement without contact being absent #corroborates (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1829
• Social distance maintained by etiquette or replaced by spatial segregation undergirds hierarchy #corroborates (0.85)
• Emphasizing or de-emphasizing social boundaries each yields distinct relational possibilities #expands (0.78) — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 51
• Segregation persisting above 60 signals involuntary discrimination #complicates (0.72)
• A dissimilarity index above 60 signals involuntary segregation, not voluntary clustering #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2426