Crossing the color line

Autor: Carina E. Ray
Editorial: Ohio University Press
Any de publicació: 2015
ISBN: 9780821421802
Idioma: anglès

Característiques del producte:
333 pp
rústica
23 x 15 cm

Descripció:
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.