At issue was not the insubordinate sentiments of the colonized, but rather the inappropriately expressed aspirations of those “out of charac- ter” and “out of place”: “haughty” referred to those mixed bloods who refused to do manual labor; “imperious” to those creoles who claimed their right to the status of “full-blooded” Europeans; “lascivious” to those whose sexual interests were seen as misdirected toward those above their racialized standing and class. This was an “emotional economy” of affective relations of production and exchange that tied the senses and their expression to the worth of human kinds.

Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ E…, loc. 572