Of natives and Europeans : colonialism and the ethnicization of racial dominance -- "Seek ye first the political kingdom" : the postcolony and racial formation -- "You are rich because you are white" : marking race and signifying whiteness -- The fact of lightness : Skin bleaching and the colored codes of racial aesthetics -- Slavery and Pan-Africanist triumph : heritage tourism and state racecraft -- "Are you a Black American?" : race and the politics of African-diaspora interactions -- Race across the Atlantic- and back : theorizing Africa and/in the diaspora -- Epilogue : Writing Ghana, imagining Africa, interrogating diaspora.