Urban segregation can literally pursue invisibility of a racial group
Evidence
In South Africa, where to be black is a “mortal sin,” new segregation plans fly in the face of the demands of urban economics: … South Africa’s latest plans for the country’s 15 million Africans and colored is to keep them out of sight. … If the proposed new national government legislation is implemented, Africans working in white areas will be restricted to the back rooms and out of town warehouses, out of sight of the five million whites. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 433
Categorization
- QUESTION: Material to revisit given the stated reading purpose re weapons of distance/invisibility toward strangers.
- XREF: connects to: A racial state is simultaneously all-encompassing and invisible in its effects — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1658