Customary anti-miscegenation attitudes hardened into formal colonial policy

Evidence

So, on one flank, the non-European, whether indigenous or imported, was increasingly taken not only as culturally inferior but as species deficient, naturally incapable of cross-species fertility (that, after all, was the very definition at the time of species differentiation). It wasn’t long before customary discouragement of interracial mixing, physical and cultural, calcified into formal policy. Restricting miscegenation was at least indirectly encouraged by the circulation of influential European racial theories of the period, notably polygenism and later eugenicism, referenced to local conditions. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1413

Categorization

• XREF: Custom hardening into formal reproductive policy parallels how informal contact constraints became institutional bans in other race regimes the reader has studied. — connects to: Polygenism justified colonial intermarriage bans and mixed-race discrimination; Colonial fear of miscegenation fuels the sexualized violence of imperial settings — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 175; Colonial liberal assimilation differed fundamentally from later racialized exclusion — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 63 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Polygenism justified colonial intermarriage bans and mixed-race discrimination #corroborates (0.92)
• Colonial fear of miscegenation fuels the sexualized violence of imperial settings #expands (0.80) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 175
• Colonial liberal assimilation differed fundamentally from later racialized exclusion #qualifies (0.75) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 63