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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ray, Carina E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2015]
Series:New African histories series.
Subjects:
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.
Table of 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.