Mixed-race colonials were feared as white-haters yet fantasized as future loyal vanguard

Evidence

By the 1840s the Inlandsche kinderen were already endowed with pejoratives. The Governor-General could confide to the Minister of Colonies with colloquial pleasure that he (of all people) was no “liplap lover.” Conceived to be “white-haters” (“blanken-haters”), who might later become colonial dissidents, it was the state’s fantasy that under proper tutelage and rigorous reform, they could one day be the most loyal vanguard of a modern and stable colonial rule. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 619

Categorization

• XREF: The simultaneous fear and groomed loyalty replicates patterns in mixed-race governance elsewhere — connects to comparative colonial studies the reader likely holds.