Interracial sex and hybridity marked U.S. nationbuilding from its start
Evidence
U.S. nationbuilding from its earliest moments featured widespread interracial sex/racial hybridity/mestizaje/ métissage.+ These currents have all continued up through the present. Still, the maintenance of “patriarchal authority and power, racial hierarchy, and white supremacy” (Woodward 1998), for allits horrors, was never monolithic, never without opposition. Subversion, escape, revolt, and political mobilization (via abolitionism and, later, antiimperialism and immigrants rights), all exposed the conflictual and indeed contradictory character of the white nation. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 89
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how hierarchies are built and contested simultaneously; also cross-refs other colonial systems and their mestizaje patterns.