Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana - Rilegato

Ray, Carina E.

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ISBN 10: 0821421794 ISBN 13: 9780821421796

Casa editrice: Ohio Univ Pr, 2015

Riassunto

2016 winner of the American Historical Association's Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history
Finalist for the 2016 Fage and Oliver Prize from the African Studies Association of the UK
Winner of the 2017 Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize

Interracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa. In Crossing the Color Line, Carina E. Ray goes beyond this fact to reveal how Ghanaians shaped and defined these powerfully charged relations. The interplay between African and European perspectives and practices, argues Ray, transformed these relationships into key sites for consolidating colonial rule and for contesting its hierarchies of power. With rigorous methodology and innovative analyses, Ray brings Ghana and Britain into a single analytic frame to show how intimate relations between black men and white women in the metropole became deeply entangled with those between black women and white men in the colony in ways that were profoundly consequential.

Based on rich archival evidence and original interviews, the book moves across different registers, shifting from the micropolitics of individual disciplinary cases brought against colonial officers who “kept” local women to transatlantic networks of family, empire, and anticolonial resistance. In this way, Ray cuts to the heart of how interracial sex became a source of colonial anxiety and nationalist agitation during the first half of the twentieth century.

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L'autore:

Carina Ray is an associate professor of African and Afro-American studies at Brandeis University. She is coeditor of Navigating African Maritime History and Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan.

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Interracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa. In "Crossing the Color Line, " Carina E. Ray goes beyond this fact to reveal how Gold Coasterstheir social practices, interests, and anxietiesshaped and defined these powerfully charged relations across racial lines. The interplay between African and European perspectives and practices, argues Ray, transformed these relationships into key sites for consolidating colonial rule and for contesting its racial and gendered hierarchies of power. With rigorous methodology and innovative analyses, Ray brings Ghana and Britain into a single analytic frame by examining cases in both locales. Intimate relations between black men and white women in Britain s port cities emerge as an influential part of the history of interracial sex and empire in ways that are connected to rather than eclipsed by relations between European men and African women in the colony. Based on rich archival evidence and original interviews, the book moves across different registers, shifting from the micropolitics of individual disciplinary cases against colonial officers who kept local women to transatlantic networks of family, empire, and anticolonial resistance. In this way, Ray cuts to the heart of how interracial sex became a source of colonial anxiety and nationalist agitation during the first half of the twentieth century."

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• Editore: Ohio Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0821421794
• ISBN 13: 9780821421796
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 333