Sexual mixing between Indians and Africans generates a named creole category feared as pollution.

Evidence

For East Indians, individual practices of racial miscegenation with Afro-Creoles have been significant enough to produce a distinctive Creole variant identified as “douglas” in the local lexicon. As the products of Afro-Indian unions, douglas have become integral to the construction of Creole identity in Guyana and Trinidad. They have also come to symbolize the threat posed by creolization to East Indian purity. The theme of “douglarization” emerges persistently in East Indian narratives of purity. It has become emblematic of the polluting consequences of sexual contact with Africans. Douglarization, therefore, is the process of transformation of East Indians into racial Creoles through miscegenation. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3255

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the specific term ‘douglarization’ — the process of East Indians becoming racial Creoles through miscegenation with Afro-Creoles.
• XREF: Connects to the earlier ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article’s theme of purity discourse policing bodies, and to general scholarship on miscegenation anxiety.