ISBN:
0821445391
,
9780821445396
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
New African histories
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ray, Carina E Crossing the color line
DDC:
306.709667
Keywords:
Miscegenation History 20th century
;
Miscegenation History 20th century
;
Colonial influence
;
Miscegenation
;
Race relations
;
Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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History
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Great Britain Race relations 20th century
;
Ghana Colonial influence 20th century
;
Ghana Social conditions 20th century
;
Ghana
;
Great Britain
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
A boundary-pushing examination of interracial relations in the colonial and anticolonial contexts
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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