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Author:

Ray, Carina E., author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Ohio University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xviii, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Miscegenation--Ghana--History--20th century.
Miscegenation--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Great Britain--Race relations--20th century.
Ghana--Colonial influence--20th century.
Ghana--Social conditions--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Conclusion: sexuality's staying power. Part Two: Metropole and colony -- 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.

Series:

New African histories

ISBN:

0821421808
9780821421802
0821421794
9780821421796

OCLC:

(OCoLC)908698938

LCCN:

2015018325

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)