Crossing the color line : race, sex, and the contested politics of colonialism in Ghana /
Ray, Carina E.
Crossing the color line : race, sex, and the contested politics of colonialism in Ghana / Carina E. Ray. - xviii, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - New African histories . - New African histories series. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-321) and index.
Introduction: the stakes of studying sex across the color line in colonial Ghana -- 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) -- "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. Part One: The Gold Coast -- Part Two: Metropole and colony --
9780821421796 (hc : alk. paper) 9780821421802 (pb : alk. paper) 9780821445396 (pdf)
2015018325
Miscegenation--History--Ghana--20th century.
Miscegenation--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Great Britain--Race relations--20th century.
Ghana--Colonial influence--20th century.
Ghana--Social conditions--20th century.
DT510.4 / RAY 2015
Crossing the color line : race, sex, and the contested politics of colonialism in Ghana / Carina E. Ray. - xviii, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - New African histories . - New African histories series. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-321) and index.
Introduction: the stakes of studying sex across the color line in colonial Ghana -- 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) -- "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. Part One: The Gold Coast -- Part Two: Metropole and colony --
9780821421796 (hc : alk. paper) 9780821421802 (pb : alk. paper) 9780821445396 (pdf)
2015018325
Miscegenation--History--Ghana--20th century.
Miscegenation--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Great Britain--Race relations--20th century.
Ghana--Colonial influence--20th century.
Ghana--Social conditions--20th century.
DT510.4 / RAY 2015