Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Tag: Ika Hügel-Marshall
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“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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Afro-German Literature and Films Gerlind Institute for Cultural Studies, Oakland, California 4 two-hour classes Marion Gerlind, Founder and Executive Director This seminar will familiarize students with the history of a minority population in Germany who has gained significant visibility in German media since the 1980s. Having confronted racist stereotyping and media (mis)representations, Black Germans have…
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Invisible Woman: Growing up Black in Germany University of California, Berkeley Center for Race & Gender Multicultural Community Center, Hearst Field Annex-D 2012-09-25, 12:40-14:00 PDT (Local Time) A reading by Ika Hügel-Marshall Ika Hügel-Marshall was the child of an African-American serviceman and a white German woman. Born and raised in post-Hitler Germany, she tells about her…
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The Subject in Black and White: Afro-German Identity Formation in Ika Hügel-Marshall’s Autobiography Daheim unterwegs: Ein deutsches Leben Women in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature & Culture Volume 21 (2005) pages 62-84 DOI: 10.1353/wgy.2005.0012 E-ISSN: 1940-512X;Print ISSN: 1058-7446 Deborah Janson, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages West Virginia University Black Germans still experience prejudice…