{"product_id":"crossing-the-color-line-carina-e-ray-9780821421802","title":"Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2017 Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the 2016 American Historical Association's Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora\u003cbr\u003e Finalist for the 2016 Fage and Oliver Prize from the African Studies Association of the UK\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa. In \u003ci\u003eCrossing the Color Line, \u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carina E. Ray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821421808\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821421802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Carina E. Ray","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44043056808191,"sku":"9780821421802","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_31cf29b5-7149-4be2-8af4-f1ec9afd6f33.jpg?v=1684965011","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crossing-the-color-line-carina-e-ray-9780821421802","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}