Severe sex-ratio imbalance drove early intimate racial mixing at the Cape

Evidence

Mixing came early in the struggles around settlement. Van Riebeeck’s five boats included 90 Europeans, 82 men, and just 8 women, one Van Riebeeck’s wife. It wasn’t long before what later would become some prominent Afrikaner family names were being spawned in mixture. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1315

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Early colonial segregation barriers failed immediately against intimate contact — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1317; Racial mixing was not yet seen as bestial in the Cape’s first half-century — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1323; Imported European racial views rationalized white control at the Cape — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1353 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Racial mixing was not yet seen as bestial in the Cape’s first half-century #qualifies (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1323
• Metropolitan racial ideas cemented hardening socio-racial divides at the Cape. #complicates (0.80)
• Imported European racial views rationalized white control at the Cape #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1353
• Intimate bodily togetherness flattens perceived racial difference #complicates (0.75) — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 18
• Early Cape racial hierarchy existed without a race-based governing rationality #qualifies (0.75)
• Racial attitudes were forged in Europe’s internal debates before Cape settlement #complicates (0.70) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1316