Crossing the color line : race, sex, and the contested politics of colonialism in Ghana / Carina E. Ray. [electronic resource]
Material type: TextSeries: New African histories seriesPublisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations, mapsISBN:- 9780821445396 (e-book)
- 306.709667 23
- DT510.4 .R39 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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