Frontier racial hardening followed the waning of metropolitan civilizing norms

Evidence

By the second half of the century, religiously, culturally, economically, and governmentally, race was taking much firmer hold of social convention, intercourse, and interaction, but also of how those of European descent were conceiving or disposed towards those who were not. This hardening of socio-racial divides was cemented by still strong links among the boers to the metropolitan center and its ideas of sociality, civility, and raciality, as well as by the sharp resultant recession in social status and the consequent inassimilability of any mixed offspring. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1368

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Liberal racial historicism held in cities while naturalist racism dominated frontiers — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1414