![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the institutionalized racism, Ika overcomes these hurdles, and finally, when she is in her forties, she locates her father with the help of a good friend and discovers that she has a loving family in Chicago. Marshalls Invisible Woman, I examine the ways that the authors use the auto. She is exposed to the scorn and cruelty of the nuns entrusted with her care. In this comparative reading of Doris McMillons Mixed Blessing and Ika Hgel. ![]() ![]() When she is seven, the state places her into a church-affiliated orphanage far away from where her mother, sister, and stepfather live. Although loved by her mother, Ika's experiences with German society's reaction to her skin color resonate with the insidiousness of racism, thus instilling in her a longing to meet her biological father. I had no reason to doubt that with my white mother, in my white family, in my white hometown, I could grow up and be happy'.So begins the story of Ika Hugel-Marshall, daughter of an African American serviceman who left Germany for America the day after learning that had impregnated the German woman with whom he was having an affair.When Hugel. As an «occupation baby», born in a small German town in 1947, Ika has a double stigma: Not only has she been born out of wedlock, but she is also Black. Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany, republished in a new annotated edition, recounts Ika Hügel-Marshall's experiences growing up as the daughter of a white German woman and an African-American man after World War II. ![]()
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