Carina Ray is a scholar of race and sexuality; comparative colonialisms and nationalisms; migration and maritime history; print cultures; bodily aesthetics, and the relationship between race, ethnicity, and political power, Ray's research is primarily focused on Ghana and its diasporas. She is the author of Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana, winner of the American Historical Association's 2016 Wesley-Logan Book Prize and the African Studies Association's 2017 Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize. Her articles have appeared in Gender and History, PMLA, The Journal of West African History, and The American Historical Review, among others. She is series co-editor of New African Histories (Ohio University Press) with Jacob Dlamini and Derek Peterson; African Identities: Past and Present (Cambridge University Press) with Toyin Falola; and Ohio Short Histories of Africa (Ohio University Press) with Dan Magaziner, Michelle Moyd, and Moses Ochunu. Ray previously served as editor of Ghana Studies and as a member of the Board of Editors for The American Historical Review.
Ray's current book project, (Im)Pressing Blackness: Race in Print Across Ghana's Long Twentieth Century, draws on Ghana's dynamic print culture to explore how Ghanaians turned the press into a generative site for constructing, claiming, and contesting blackness as a political and embodied identity during a protracted period of great political, economic, social, and cultural upheaval. She is also working on a long-term oral history project that explores the sprawling Cuban presence in Cold War-era Africa through the voices of the Cuban women and men who served there.
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