{"id":50355,"date":"2016-11-30T21:23:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T21:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50355"},"modified":"2016-12-03T02:32:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T02:32:07","slug":"crossing-the-color-line-race-sex-and-the-contested-politics-of-colonialism-in-ghana-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50355","title":{"rendered":"Carina E. Ray: Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newbooksnetwork.com\/carina-e-ray-crossing-the-color-line-race-sex-and-the-contested-politics-of-colonialism-in-ghana-ohio-up-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Carina E. Ray: Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana [Interview]<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newbooksnetwork.com\" target=\"_blank\">New Books Network<\/a><br \/>\n2016-10-07<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/history.unl.edu\/dawne-y-curry\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Dawne Curry<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of History and Ethnic Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Nebraska, Lincoln<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41282\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana<\/em><\/a> (Ohio University Press, 2015), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandeis.edu\/facultyguide\/person.html?emplid=95a414c5c897a0ad39442cf81b7e78aa0dd584d9\" target=\"_blank\">Carina E. Ray <\/a>interrogates the intersections of race, marriage, gender and empire in this thought-provoking study that challenges the notion of identity and the politics that surround it. Ray plumbs the depth of an array of archival material, which includes travel narratives, visual sources, administrative records, wills, and personal and official correspondence. She also conducted interviews to further piece together the inner lives of Africans and Europeans to show how interracial marriages and relationships evolved in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ghana\" target=\"_blank\">Ghana<\/a>. In a very compelling way, Ray deconstructs intersexual economies to show their linkages to the slave trade and beyond. Her opening vignette not only sets the stage for the themes she addresses to illustrate how Africans had agency even when it came to marrying across the color line. Shortlisted for the United Kingdom\u2019s Fage and Oliver Prize and the winner of the American Historical Associations\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/Wesley-Logan Prize for African Diaspora History\" target=\"_blank\">Wesley-Logan Prize for African Diaspora History<\/a>, this groundbreaking book has set new standards for understanding race, its implementation and its interpretation not only in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Africa\" target=\"_blank\">Africa<\/a> but also around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview (00:57:50) <a href=\"http:\/\/newbooksnetwork.com\/carina-e-ray-crossing-the-color-line-race-sex-and-the-contested-politics-of-colonialism-in-ghana-ohio-up-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Download the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/files.newbooksnetwork.com\/africanstudies\/027africanstudiesray.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carina E. Ray: Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana [Interview] New Books Network 2016-10-07 Dawne Curry, Associate Professor of History and Ethnic Studies University of Nebraska, Lincoln In Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana (Ohio University Press, 2015), Carina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,2850,459,13743,8],"tags":[5490,3224,25594,25595,7817,23779],"class_list":["post-50355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-audio","category-history","category-interviews","category-media-archive","tag-carina-e-ray","tag-carina-ray","tag-dawne-curry","tag-dawne-y-curry","tag-ghana","tag-new-books-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50355","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=50355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50377,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50355\/revisions\/50377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}