Colonial paperwork fused physical and moral definitions of racial identity

Evidence

The questions were grounded in an epistemology of race that conjoined a physical definition of race (hair-, skin-, and eye color) with one that relied on comportment, disposition, and moral character. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 905

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the specifically conjunctive epistemology of race: phenotype plus moral character as twin axes of classification.
• XREF: Relates to Ann Laura Stoler’s work on colonial classifications and the role of bureaucratic categories in constituting race. — connects to: Eighteenth-century ethnology fused bodily and cultural notions of race together — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 137; the MOC “The Wound of the Label: When Knowing Someone Becomes a Way of Erasing Them”