In many liberal predominantly white neighborhoods, white residents view their communities as inclusive yet they also engage in racialized surveillance to monitor individuals they perceive as outsiders. Some of these efforts center on people of color in neighborhood open spaces. We use a diversity ideology framework to analyze this contradiction, paying particular attention to how residents of color experience racialized surveillance of their neighborhood’s publicly accessible parks and swimming pools. This article draws on data from neighborhood documents, neighborhood digital platforms, and interviews with residents of a liberal, affluent, predominantly white community that was expressly designed with public spaces open to non-residents. We find that resident surveillance of neighborhood public spaces is racialized, occurs regularly, and happens in person and on neighborhood online platforms where diversity as liability rhetoric is conveyed using colorblind discourse. These monitoring efforts, which are at times supported by formal measures, impact residents of color to varying degrees. We expand on diversity ideology by identifying digital and in-person racialized surveillance as a key mechanism by which white residents attempt to enforce racialized boundaries and protect whiteness in multiracial spaces and by highlighting how Black and Latinx residents, in particular, navigate these practices.

在许多以白人为主的自由主义社区，白人居民认为他们的社区具有包容性，但他们也参与种族化的监视，以监视他们认为是局外人的个人。其中一些努力集中在社区开放空间中的有色人种。我们使用多元化意识形态框架来分析这一矛盾，特别关注有色人种居民如何体验对其社区公共公园和游泳池的种族监控。本文利用来自社区文件、社区数字平台以及对自由、富裕、以白人为主的社区居民的采访中的数据，该社区的公共空间专门设计为向非居民开放。我们发现对社区公共空间的居民监视是种族化的，经常发生，并且发生在个人和社区在线平台上，在这些平台上，使用色盲话语传达多样性作为责任修辞。这些有时得到正式措施支持的监测工作对有色人种居民产生了不同程度的影响。我们通过将数字和面对面的种族化监视确定为白人居民试图在多种族空间中强制执行种族化界限和保护白人的关键机制，并通过强调黑人和拉丁裔居民如何驾驭这些做法来扩展多样性意识形态。