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AFRICAN STUDIES 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS SERIES TOPICS New African Histories .....................................................1 Environment, History, Politics ......................................18 Africa in World History ...................................................6 History............................................................................20 Indian Ocean Studies Series ............................................8 Global and Comparative Studies ..................................29 Ohio Short Histories of Africa ......................................12 Public Health .................................................................30 Series in Ecology and History .......................................15 Land and Development ................................................32 Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series................27 War and Peace ..............................................................33 Perspectives on Global Health ......................................31 Women’s and Gender Studies ......................................35 Modern African Writing ...............................................44 Anthropology and Sociology........................................37 Politics, Religion, Law, and Labor ................................40 Index · Authors .............................................................50 Literature and Literary Studies.....................................46 Index · Titles ..................................................................52 Film and Media .............................................................49 ORDERING EXAM/DESK COPY REQUESTS ABBREVIATIONS Individuals are encouraged to patronize local We send free examination copies in Adobe Digital RIS Research in International Studies bookstores whenever possible. 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Ray States of Marriage Diamonds in the Rough Crossing the Color Line Gender, Justice, and Rights in Colonial Mali Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917–1975 of Colonialism in Ghana “A deftly written, sophisticated book that demonstrates the centrality of marriage to colonial gender-making Diamonds in the Rough explores the lives of “A fascinating exploration of sex across the color line projects in French Sudan…. A must read for scholars African laborers on Angola’s diamond mines from in colonial Ghana. This book is a brilliant addition to of African history and gender studies.”—Dorothy L. the commencement of operations in 1917 to the the literature on sex, gender and empire.”—Kwame Hodgson, professor of anthropology, Rutgers University colony’s independence from Portugal in 1975. The Anthony Appiah, professor of philosophy and law, New and editor of The Gender, Culture and Power Reader mines were owned and operated by the Diamond York University and Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights Company of Angola, or Diamang, which enjoyed “This book will quickly be recognized as an agenda- exclusive mining and labor concessions granted by States of Marriage shows how throughout the setting work and will illuminate debates on race the colonial government. colonial period in French Sudan (present-day Mali) the relations not just in Ghana and West Africa, but institution of marriage played a central role in how After a tumultuous initial period, the company’s mines wherever such relations occurred in the British Empire.” the empire defined its colonial subjects as gendered and mining encampments experienced a remarkable — Ato Quayson, author of Oxford Street, Accra: City persons with certain attendant rights and privileges. degree of stability, in striking contrast to the labor Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism unrest and ethnic conflicts that flared in other regions. The book is a modern history of the ideological debates Interracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in surrounding the meaning of marriage, as well as the Todd Cleveland explains that this unparalleled level of West Africa. In Crossing the Color Line, Carina E. Ray associated legal and sociopolitical practices in colonial quietude was a product of three factors: African work- goes beyond this fact to reveal how Ghanaians shaped and postcolonial Mali. It is also the first to use declas- ers’ high levels of social and occupational commitment, and defined these powerfully charged relations. The sified court records regarding colonialist attempts to or “professionalism”; the extreme isolation of the min- interplay between African and European perspectives classify and categorize traditional marriage conventions ing installations; and efforts by Diamang to attract and and practices, argues Ray, transformed these relation- in the southern region of the country. retain scarce laborers through a calculated paternalism. ships into key sites for consolidating colonial rule and The company’s offer of decent accommodations for contesting its hierarchies of power. With rigorous 2015 · 248 pp and recreational activities, as well as the presence of methodology and innovative analyses, Ray brings PB (978-0-8214-2145-1 · $32.95) · CL · E women and children, induced reciprocal behavior on Ghana and Britain into a single analytic frame to show the part of the miners, a professionalism that pervaded how intimate relations between black men and white both the social and the workplace environments. women in the metropole became deeply entangled with those between black women and white men in This disparity between the harshness of the colonial the colony in ways that were profoundly consequential. labor regime elsewhere and the relatively agreeable conditions and attendant professionalism of employees 2015 · 364 pp at Diamang opens up new ways of thinking about how PB (978-0-8214-2180-2 · $32.95) · CL · E Africans in colonial contexts engaged with forced labor, mining capital, and ultimately, each other. 2015 · 280 pp PB (978-0-8214-2134-5 · $32.95) · CL · E OHIOSWALLOW.COM New African Histories • 1 Allen F. Isaacman and Barbara S. Isaacman James R. Brennan Abosede A. George Dams, Displacement, and the Taifa Making Modern Girls Delusion of Development Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania A History of Girlhood, Labor, and Social Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Development in Colonial Lagos WINNER OF THE 2013 BETHWELL A. OGOT BOOK Mozambique, 1965–2007 PRIZE FOR BEST BOOK ON EAST AFRICAN STUDIES “Firmly grounded and intellectually engaging, Making WINNER OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL Modern Girls makes a significant contribution to “This is an important book. There’s nothing else that ASSOCIATION’S 2014 MARTIN A. KLEIN colonial urban social history and also to the study puts Indians and Africans in the same frame. Brennan PRIZE IN AFRICAN HISTORY of the late colonial state, its nationalist opponents, is grounded in two separate sets of secondary literature and their ‘welfarist’ and interventionist attitudes.” WINNER OF THE 2014 and that gives his work a breadth that is rare.”— Luise —Richard D. Waller, associate professor of history, MELVILLE J. HERSKOVITS AWARD White, author of The Comforts of Home: Prostitution Bucknell University in Colonial Nairobi