TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ray,Carina E.
TI  - Crossing the color line: race, sex, and the contested politics of colonialism in Ghana 
T2  - New African histories
SN  - 9780821421796 (hc : alk. paper)
AV  - DT510.4 RAY  2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Athens, Ohio
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Miscegenation
KW  - Ghana
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Colonial influence
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-321) 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
ER  -