Subordinated groups may assimilate but never congregate without provoking violence

Evidence

Blacks, browns, and Muslims may eventually assimilate and integrate into white communities, but they may not congregate: the communal strength of their presence provokes fear and sometimes lethal violence. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 515

Categorization

  • XREF: Mirrors the reader’s own work on spatial racecraft — the congregation prohibition parallels tree-canopy or mosques-as-infrastructure themes in the Grafting essay and the segragation-mechanism claims from Choudhury ch73-77. — connects to: Residential steering and move-in violence afflict both Blacks and Muslims today.; Dominant-group violence is deliberately calibrated to co-opt rather than alienate subordinates — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 667; Racialized minorities in white communities may integrate but never congregate without provoking violence
  • ADDENDUM: Ties the anti-mosque spatial claims (ch74-76) into what the tree-infrastructure piece argued about the communal strength of physical presence.

Broader Connections