Crossing the color line : race, sex, and the contested politics of colonialism in Ghana / Carina E. Ray.

Author/creator Ray, Carina E.
Format Book
PublicationAthens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2015.
Descriptionxviii, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Miscegenation (Racist theory)--Ghana. --History. --20th century.
Miscegenation (Racist theory)--Great Britain. --History. --20th century.
Great Britain--Race relations. --20th century.
Ghana--Colonial influence. --20th century.
Ghana--Social conditions. --20th century.

SeriesNew African histories
New African histories series. ^A590193
Contents Introduction: the stakes of studying sex across the color line in colonial Ghana -- Part One: The Gold Coast -- From indispensable to "undesirable": African women, European men, and the transformation of Afro-European power relations on the Gold Coast -- "Undesirable relations": European officers, "native" women, and racial classification -- "A new whim of a most unpopular governor": embedded officers and the local politics of concubinage cases (1907/1909) -- The Crewe circular: the life and death of a policy on interracial concubinage (1909/1934) -- "A manifestation of madness": the Gold Coast's interracial marriage "epidemic" (1944/1945) -- Part Two: Metropole and colony -- "The white wife problem": intermarriage and the politics of repatriation to interwar West Africa -- White peril/Black power: interracial sex and the beginning of the end of empire -- Wasu, white women, and African independence -- Conclusion: sexuality's staying power.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 299-321) and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2015018325
ISBN9780821421796 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN0821421794 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN9780821421802 (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN0821421808 (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN9780821445396 (pdf)
ISBN0821445391 (pdf)
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