All 4 Uses of
proximity
in
The Souls of Black Folk
- In the civilized life of to-day the contact of men and their relations to each other fall in a few main lines of action and communication: there is, first, the physical proximity of home and dwelling-places, the way in which neighborhoods group themselves, and the contiguity of neighborhoods.†
Chpt 9proximity = characteristic of being close
- Usually in cities each street has its distinctive color, and only now and then do the colors meet in close proximity.†
Chpt 9 *
- A Negro slum may be in dangerous proximity to a white residence quarter, while it is quite common to find a white slum planted in the heart of a respectable Negro district.†
Chpt 9
- One thing, however, seldom occurs: the best of the whites and the best of the Negroes almost never live in anything like close proximity.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
characteristic of being close -- in space or time