Europeans responded to colonial racial mixing with restriction and repression

Evidence

Having mobilized more or less robust heterogeneity into the region, Europeans sought to restrain and contain it, ultimately to restrict and repress it in various and vigorous ways. Restraint and restriction of hybridizing heterogeneity were a response to perceived immorality and the threat to presumptuous scientific perversion, to possible constraints on land enclosure and on the unskilled labor supply, and to sustaining order and power shaped by and through race. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1400

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Cultural mixing outpaced racial mixing at the colonial Cape despite policing. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1330