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... sets the stage for the multidisciplinary selections to appear in the six parts that follow. cocoa international relations gold Gold Coast colony history ...

... Once in Africa, Caribbean administrators found themselves in-between. This chapter generalizes these experiences with six snapshots from the lives of René Maran of Martinique and Cunliffe Hoyte of Trinidad. While limited to Oubangui-Chari and the Gold Coast between 1910 and 1918, the chapter...

... Chapter 3 engages with the interest of German linguists in secret languages, focusing on recordings of a Congolese drum language and a secret language from the Gold Coast of Africa. The chapter examines the cases of Stephan Bischoff and Albert Kudjabo. Bischoff was raised at a mission station...

... Chapter 6 turns to the political networks of three teachers who worked in the Gold Coast and Nigeria: Joseph Britton of British Guiana, Edith Goring of Barbados, and Lebert Veitch of Jamaica. All three teachers worked within a colonial education system, but they also created durable...

... Disintegrations: Motion, Madness, and Incongruent Planes in History”: Motion and immobility may converge around transport conveyances in states and textures of mind and madness. This chapter juxtaposes 1950s Gold Coast lorries and commercial shrines with Guinea slave ships of the 1790s: thus, postwar melancholic...

... Chapter 4 follows David McNeil-Stewart, a sanitary inspector from Trinidad who worked in the Gold Coast and learned Fante, Twi, and Ewe. Drawing on a language exam and other sources, the chapter considers how McNeil-Stewart identified linguistic connections between the Trinidad Creole of Port...

... of an emotional connection between Wright and the land of his ancestors, averring that Wright had no greater ties to the Gold Coast than those of white Americans to the European countries they visited in large numbers in search of their ancestors’ birthplaces. Cautioning readers to be aware that Wright viewed...

... With a focus on the Gold Coast in Chicago, this chapter looks at leather bars as sites of invention. Leather bars attracted men who sought to radically redefine gay male sexuality, to reclaim their masculinity, and to constitute a tribe. These bars emerged as one of the first truly distinct...