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Crossing the color line is tierone scholarship, capable of directing a new course in historical research on sex, gender, race, diaspora, empire and identity formation, among other themes and subfields of african colonial history. Ray interrogates the intersections of race, marriage, gender and empire in this thoughtprovoking study that challenges the notion of identity and the politics that surround it. Race, sex, and the contested politics of colonialism in ghana both surprises and delights its readers as it navigates through the lives and politics of interracial couples in britain and ghana. Race, sex, and the contested politics of colonialism in ghana, new african. Race, sex, and the contested politics of colonialism in ghana by carina e. Ray plumbs the depth of an array of archival material, which includes travel narratives, visual sources, administrative records, wills, and personal and official correspondence.
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