Join Carina E. Ray of Brandeis University as she discusses interracial relations in colonial Ghana as explored in her new book, Crossing the Color Line.
Time: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 12:30 PM
Location: King Juan Carlos Center (53 Washington Square South, Rm. 607)
“Crossing the Color Line uses a wide-angle lens to think broadly and adeptly about the fate of sexual liaisons against the backdrop of imperial change in the 20th century. Ray pays scrupulous attention to the embeddedness of sexual relations in local contexts through textured personal stories and fine-grained analyses of how race, gender, and class intertwined to produce both African agency and British unease. In the process, this book makes a persuasive case for the indispensability of interracial histories to any account of imperial power and anticolonial resistance.”
Antoinette Burton, author of The Trouble with Empire
“A fascinating exploration of sex across the color line in colonial Ghana. This book is a brilliant addition to the literature on sex, gender and empire.”
Kwame Anthony Appiah, professor of philosophy and law, New York University
“With Crossing the Color Line, Carina Ray has produced a leading work on the intricate interracial relationships in colonial Ghana. Her study builds on so far fragmented studies for the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, giving us a comprehensive understanding of the development of interracial relations during the height of colonialism in Ghana in the 20th century and beyond. Theoretically and methodologically, the book is of seminal importance for the study of the subject in general.”
Michel R. Doortmont, University of Groningen and African Studies Centre Leiden
Lunch will be provided.
