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.