In this article, I show how groups and individuals maintain racialized symbolic boundaries at the micro-level of personal interactions. Using data collected during an ethnographic study in Athens, Greece, where I worked as a fruit vendor in a street market, I detail how local Greek vendors and immigrant workers use language, gesture, olfaction, along with their interpretations of faith and sexuality to reproduce patterns of social distance that allow for racialized stigma and discrimination. I apply the framework of symbolic interactionism and draw from literature on symbolic boundaries to explore how immigrant street market workers experience and resist racialization throughout the interaction order. I show that racialization underlies perceptions of the immigrant “other,” especially in the case of Greece where race is often ignored as a crucial factor.

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黑人雅典人：在希腊街头市场制定和抵制种族化的符号边界

在这篇文章中，我展示了群体和个人如何在个人互动的微观层面维持种族化的象征界限。使用在希腊雅典的民族志研究期间收集的数据，我在那里担任街头市场的水果小贩，我详细介绍了当地的希腊小贩和移民工人如何使用语言、手势、嗅觉以及他们对信仰和性行为的解释来复制允许种族歧视和歧视的社会距离模式。我应用符号互动主义的框架，并从符号边界的文献中汲取灵感，探索移民街头市场工人如何在整个互动秩序中体验和抵制种族化。我表明种族化是对移民“其他、