Colonial censure targeted mixed offspring more than the act of mixing

Evidence

Race mixing came to be common enough, the informal social rejection probably aimed more directly at the offspring than the fact of miscegenating intercourse, which seemed irrepressible. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1090

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts instructively with the US one-drop rule, where the fact of mixing itself carried horror — shows Latin American tolerance was for the act while stigma transferred to the child, an inversion worth exploring.