Decrying White Peril: Interracial Sex and the Rise of Anticolonial Nationalism in the Gold Coast

Ray, Carina

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“…However, by reading them "collectively," as she proposes, we can "take seriously [the] connections" and patterns that highlight the underlying ubiquity and long shadow of Lenin's state capitalist ideas and the Soviet situation within the interlapping orbits of Nkrumah and other Black Marxists lives. 36 While historian Peter Gordon is accurate that contextualism can never "fully account for all the potentialities of an idea," 37 I am uninterested in determining or locating state capitalism's multiple meanings across geographic spaces and time and which variant of state capitalism Nkrumah or any of the Black Marxists subscribed to -that is for another paper. What I am keen to know, though, is the degree, or perhaps the extent to which, Nkrumah knew about Lenin's state capitalist ideas.…”

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Ghana and Nkrumah Revisited: Lenin, State Capitalism, and Black Marxist Orbits

Osei-Opare

2023

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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This paper reexamines African socialism, the Ghanaian political economy under Kwame Nkrumah (1957–1966), Nkrumah’s intellectual genealogical heritage, and African intellectual history as a genre that transcends the bounds of the Atlantic world. First, I sketch the lives of Black Marxists—Nkrumah, C.L.R. James, George Padmore, and Bankole Awoonor-Renner—from Africa and the Americas, to the Soviet Union, to England and Ghana, to rethink Black bodies not merely as theorists of racial and decolonial questions but also as sites, carriers, and manipulators of political-economic theories. In constructing connected and overlapping histories, I demonstrate how controversial and contested Soviet ideas became key sites of interrogation among global Black Marxists. By reframing travel as an intellectual process, I reconceptualize the movements of Black Marxists to the USSR, the United States, England, and Ghana as critical intellectual and historical processes in their understandings of Lenin’s state capitalist ideas. Second, I revisit the Ghanaian political economy under Nkrumah to argue that combining socialist and capitalist development paths was not a contradictory Marxian policy but was embedded within Black Marxist understandings of Lenin’s state capitalist ideas. In so doing, I argue that we must situate African political ideologies not solely within a romanticized Afrocentric origin but as ideas that emerge out of contemporaneous global political and ideological struggles. I draw on global Black Marxists’ correspondence; newspaper and magazine articles; British and American espionage files; and Ghanaian, American, and British state and inter-state departmental documents in imperial, colonial, and postcolonial British, Ghanaian, American, and Russian archives.

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Ghana and Nkrumah Revisited: Lenin, State Capitalism, and Black Marxist Orbits

Osei-Opare

2023

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“…These not only became the targets of state surveillance but of popular protests 'from below', and from within the specifically gendered portcityscapes. 121 Port cities were thus not only marked by liberal internationalism. They were equally defined by the demarcation of boundaries.…”

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Mooring Mobilities, Fixing Flows: Towards a Global Urban History of Port Cities in the Age of Steam

Heerten¹

2021

J Historical Sociology

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This article critically surveys the current historiography of port cities, which have recently attracted a lot of interest, particularly from global historians of the 19th and early 20th century. The article contextualizes this body of scholarship within larger recent and older trends in the discipline. Recently, historians and other scholars have predominantly analyzed port cities as “nodal points” or “hubs” within global networks. The article argues that these perspectives project spatial patterns defined by the imaginary of globalization today into the past, failing to acknowledge how tightly interwoven globalization and urbanization were in port cities during the age of steam. However, port cities can provide concrete narrative focal points to develop empirically‐grounded global histories, and remind us of the various efforts to control, limit, or prevent unsolicited forms of mobility and entanglement in the sites where these were moored or fixed. Finally, port cities can render the labor of the urban masses visible that facilitated the making of steam age connectivity and a globality anchored in the urban space of the ports.

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“…Black Power in the US was innately tied to the country’s racist past and present, while in Ghana many would claim that race was not applicable as a framework for understanding local issues. However, as both Jemima Pierre (2008, 2012, 2020) and Carina Ray (2014, 2015) have shown, racialization was not a novel concept or experience in Ghana. Housing, leisure, and business segregation, policies aimed at restricting interracial relationships, and the intentional hierarchical categorization according to race and skin color in the British colonial system had secured white supremacy in the Gold Coast (see also Plageman 2013).…”

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Black Power, Raw Soul, and Race in Ghana

Okuda

2023

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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In the late 1960s, Ghanaians joined the global conversation about Black Power. Despite the absence of President Nkrumah and attempts to dampen local interest in radical political movements, young Ghanaian students, musicians, and audience members were well informed of the global implications of white supremacy. Okuda examines how Ghanaians expanded the legacy of Black Power into an African context, seizing opportunities to connect with African Americans via popular media, exchange programs, and soul music to show their solidarity with the fight against racist policies and practices abroad and to stay vigilant against neo-imperialism at home.

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Decrying White Peril: Interracial Sex and the Rise of Anticolonial Nationalism in the Gold Coast

Cited by 30 publications

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Ghana and Nkrumah Revisited: Lenin, State Capitalism, and Black Marxist Orbits

Ghana and Nkrumah Revisited: Lenin, State Capitalism, and Black Marxist Orbits

Mooring Mobilities, Fixing Flows: Towards a Global Urban History of Port Cities in the Age of Steam

Black Power, Raw Soul, and Race in Ghana

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