Imported European racial views rationalized white control at the Cape

Evidence

This is not to suggest that the “curse of Ham” is characteristic of Afrikaner Calvinism, a view André du Toit rejects only half-convincingly. Rather, it indicates the ways in which a variety of racially ordering views imported from Europe is circulated to sustain or rationalize white political, economic, cultural, and moral control in the Cape context. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1353

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; Severe sex-ratio imbalance drove early intimate racial mixing at the Cape — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1315; South Africa’s post-Union state institutionalized white interest as its prime structural purpose — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1489 (+3 more)