Metropolitan racial ideas cemented hardening socio-racial divides at the Cape.

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 (#complicates, via linked claim)

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; Colonial racial ideas circulated bidirectionally between metropole and province. (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Frontier racial hardening followed the waning of metropolitan civilizing norms #complicates (0.74) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1368