Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics

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Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana (New African Histories)

Winner of the 2016 Wesley-Logan Prize in African Diaspora History from the American Historical Association
Interracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa. In Crossing the Color Line, Carina E. Ray goes beyond this fact to reveal how Gold Coastersâ€”their social practices, interests, and anxietiesâ€”shaped and defined these powerfully charged relations across racial lines. The interplay between African and European perspectives and practices, argues Ray, transformed these relationships into key sites for consolidating colonial rule and for contesting its racial and gendered hierarchies of power.

With rigorous methodology and innovative analyses, Ray brings Ghana and Britain into a single analytic frame by examining cases in both locales. Intimate relations between black men and white women in Britainâ€™s port cities emerge as an influential part of the history of interracial sex and empire in ways that are connected to rather than eclipsed by relations between European men and African women in the colony.

Based on rich archival evidence and original interviews, the book moves across different registers, shifting from the micropolitics of individual disciplinary cases against colonial officers who â€œkeptâ€ local women to transatlantic networks of family, empire, and anticolonial resistance. In this way, Ray cuts to the heart of how interracial sex became a source of colonial anxiety and nationalist agitation during the first half of the twentieth century.
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Country USA
Brand Ohio University Press
Manufacturer Ohio University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber illustrations
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780821421802
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Ohio University Press
Manufacturer	Ohio University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	illustrations
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780821421802
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana (New African Histories)

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