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001 2015018325
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008 150507s2015 ohuab b 001 0 eng c
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050 00 $aDT510.4$bR39 2015
082 04 $a306.709667$223
100 1 $aRay, Carina E.
245 10 $aCrossing the color line :$brace, sex, and the contested politics of colonialism in Ghana /$cCarina E. Ray.
264 1 $aAthens, Ohio :$bOhio University Press,$c2015.
300 $axviii, 333 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aNew African histories
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 299-321) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: the stakes of studying sex across the color line in colonial Ghana --$gPart One: The Gold Coast --$tFrom indispensable to "undesirable": African women, European men, and the transformation of Afro-European power relations on the Gold Coast --$t"Undesirable relations": European officers, "native" women, and racial classification --$t"A new whim of a most unpopular governor": embedded officers and the local politics of concubinage cases (1907/1909) --$tThe Crewe circular: the life and death of a policy on interracial concubinage (1909/1934) --$t"A manifestation of madness": the Gold Coast's interracial marriage "epidemic" (1944/1945) --$gPart Two: Metropole and colony --$t"The white wife problem": intermarriage and the politics of repatriation to interwar West Africa --$tWhite peril/Black power: interracial sex and the beginning of the end of empire --$tWasu, white women, and African independence --$tConclusion: sexuality's staying power.
650 0 $aMiscegenation$zGhana$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aMiscegenation$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xRace relations$y20th century.
651 0 $aGhana$xColonial influence$y20th century.
651 0 $aGhana$xSocial conditions$y20th century.
830 0 $aNew African histories series.