Cultural mixing outpaced racial mixing at the colonial Cape despite policing.

Evidence

From the outset, European culture was taken by the settlers to be elevated, where the indigenous were recognized to have culture at all. As in Latin America, euro-mimesis set the imposed cultural standard, the horizon of rationality, of intellectual prowess and aesthetic metric. No matter, though. Cultural métissage, policed as it is, nevertheless usually far outstrips the miscegenational. Not least because it creeps up unsuspectingly, takes hold unexpectedly, and settles in unmentionably. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1330

Categorization

• XREF: Contact/institution gap: sustained intimate contact coexisted with the institutional racial order — directly relevant to testing whether everyday contact generalizes across the reader’s identity-axis research. — connects to: Racial mixing was not yet seen as bestial in the Cape’s first half-century — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1323; Early Cape racial boundaries were drawn on religious rather than biological lines. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1360; Cultural mixing exceeds racial mixing precisely because it goes unobserved — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1330 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Cultural mixing exceeds racial mixing precisely because it goes unobserved #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1330
• Racial mixing was not yet seen as bestial in the Cape’s first half-century #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1323
• Early Cape racial boundaries were drawn on religious rather than biological lines. #corroborates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1360
• Imported European racial views rationalized white control at the Cape #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1353
• Metropolitan racial ideas cemented hardening socio-racial divides at the Cape. #complicates (0.72)
• Colonial race was judged by conduct and affiliation rather than appearance #complicates (0.70)
• Europeans responded to colonial racial mixing with restriction and repression #complicates (0.70) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1400