Dutch colonial authorities saw creole parental love as a political threat to their rule

Evidence

Parental love (ouderliefde), too much of it (among creole whites) or not enough of it (among mixed bloods), seems to come up at every turn. Parliamentary representation in Holland was a problem, but the “more dangerous grievances” were those perceived as broadly spread among the established Indische Europeans, among old timers and newcomers, creoles, and the colored: what all wanted was an end to the privileges of the Delft monopoly and the obligatory Radikaal certificate that denied careers to their offspring. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 561

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to scholarship on colonial anxieties about creolization and settler loyalties, and to concepts of biopolitics and the family as a site of governance.
• QUESTION: What exactly was the Radikaal certificate, and how did it function as an instrument of metropolitan privilege inside the colony?