{"id":46474,"date":"2016-04-25T14:30:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T14:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46474"},"modified":"2016-04-30T21:07:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T21:07:46","slug":"color-lines-sex-race-and-body-politics-in-precolonial-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46474","title":{"rendered":"Color Lines: Sex, Race, and Body Politics in Pre\/Colonial Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"

Color Lines: Sex, Race, and Body Politics in Pre\/Colonial Ghana<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Indiana University, Bloomington<\/a>
\nCenter for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society<\/a>
\nSchuessler Institute for Social Research
\n1022 E. 3rd Street
\nMaple Room, IMU
\nBloomington, Indiana 47405
\nThursday, 2016-04-28, 16:00-17:30 EDT (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Carina Ray<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies
\nBrandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n

CRRES Speaker Series, Spring 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Drawing on her recently published book about interracial sexual relationships in colonial Ghana<\/a> and her new research on how indigenous historical actors in this region of West Africa<\/a> have thought about and constructed blackness as a symbolic, somatic, and political signifier, Ray’s talk explores how race catalyzed social and political change even in areas of Africa without large settler colonial populations. Centering Ghana<\/a> in her talk Ray argues that race, rather than ethnicity alone, has powerfully shaped the historical landscape of a continent that has for centuries been at the heart of the West’s racializing discourses.<\/p>\n

Carina Ray is an associate professor of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University. A scholar of race and sexuality; comparative colonialisms and nationalisms; migration and maritime history; and the relationship between race, ethnicity, and political power, Carina\u2019s research is primarily focused on Ghana and its diasporas. She is the author of Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana<\/em><\/a> (Ohio University Press, 2015) and co-editor of Navigating African Maritime History<\/em> (with Jeremy Rich) and Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan: A Critical Reader<\/em> (with Salah Hassan). Her articles have appeared in The American Historical Review<\/em>, Gender and History<\/em>, and Historical Reflections\/Reflexions Historiques<\/em>. Carina is currently working on her new book project, Somatic Blackness: A History of the Body and Race-Making in Ghana<\/em>.<\/p>\n

For more information, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Color Lines: Sex, Race, and Body Politics in Pre\/Colonial Ghana Indiana University, Bloomington Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society Schuessler Institute for Social Research 1022 E. 3rd Street Maple Room, IMU Bloomington, Indiana 47405 Thursday, 2016-04-28, 16:00-17:30 EDT (Local Time) Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,459,13,8,10,20,25],"tags":[5490,3224,23429,23430,7817,16934],"class_list":["post-46474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-history","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-usa","category-women","tag-carina-e-ray","tag-carina-ray","tag-center-for-research-on-race-and-ethnicity-in-society","tag-crres","tag-ghana","tag-gold-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46481,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46474\/revisions\/46481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}