Decrying White Peril
Interracial Sex and the Rise of Anticolonial Nationalism in the Gold Coast
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9420051 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Ray (0000-0002-7925-5617, corresponding author), Carina E Ray |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 119 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 78-110 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ahr/119.1.78 |
| OpenAlex | W2314821445 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
IN THE SUMMER AND FALL of 1919, the African-owned Gold Coast press was awash with news stories and impassioned commentary about the postwar race riots that had recently devastated Liverpool, Cardiff, and other major port cities in Britain. Angered by the sexual politics underlying the riots, Gold Coast commentators were quick to point out that the ports’ white rioters were not the only ones aggrieved by interracial sexual relations. Atu, a regular columnist for the Gold Coast Leader, responded to news that black men were targeted for repatriation after being attacked on the ports’ streets for “consorting with white women” by reminding his readers “that in their own country white men freely consort with coloured women, forming illicit alliances, and in many cases leaving on the coast abandoned offspring to the precarious protection of needy native families.” He continued, “It does not require much skill to diagnose the canting hypocrisy underlying” the riots, but the question now was whether “any sensible man [could] suppose that these men will return to their homes to view with complacency the spectacle of white men associated with coloured women.”1 In a few short lines, Atu vivified the “tensions of empire” created by the movement of African men between metropole and colony, and their different systems of raced and gendered sexual access.2
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |