Naturalist racism banned miscegenation while tolerating rape of black women

Evidence

The differences between the naturalist and historicist traditions, however, are clearly revealed in their respective considerations regarding both miscegenation and access of those not completely of European descent to offices of governmental power. Racial naturalists almost always have been committed to anti-miscegenation laws. For the naturalist, miscegenation prompts the fear of degeneracy or cultural and physical pollution, the bringing down of the superior by socializing with the inferior. Rape of black women by white men, nevertheless, if not formally condoned, was more widely engaged than acknowledged. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 48

Categorization

• XREF: The policing of black women’s bodies while white men raped freely connects to the author’s existing interest in how control operates through domestic intimacy.