Frontier survival pushed intermittent cooperation between settlers and Khoi despite racial suspicion.

Evidence

What could be characterized as a Hobbesian state of nature prevailed, rendered less extreme perhaps only by the force of necessarily cooperative reason on all sides. Cooperation, when not trumped by narrow selfinterest or salacious desire, more likely promotes a longer life than does belligerence. The common challenges of survival pulled people together, just as racially exacerbated suspicion kept conflict little more than a stone’s throw away. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1365 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Grenier argues that rather than racism leading to violence, the reverse occurred: the out-of-control momentum of extreme violence of unlimited warfare fueled race hatred. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 141 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Proximity to the indigenous and the mixed – spatially, occupationally, in terms of certain cultural habits such as clothing, food consumption, living conditions – reinforced the need for distinction, for stressing symbolic distance and social self-elevation. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1370 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Cooperation and racial suspicion coexisted on the frontier — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1365; Close proximity to the colonized intensified settlers’ drive for racial distinction — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1370; Frontier violence fueled racism, not the reverse — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 141 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Cooperation and racial suspicion coexisted on the frontier #corroborates (0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1365
• Frontier violence fueled racism, not the reverse #complicates (0.78) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 141
• Close proximity to the colonized intensified settlers’ drive for racial distinction #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1370