{"id":13912,"date":"2011-05-24T03:09:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T03:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13912"},"modified":"2017-07-15T21:08:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T21:08:46","slug":"the-subject-in-black-and-white-afro-german-identity-formation-in-ika-hugel-marshalls-autobiography-daheim-unterwegs-ein-deutsches-leben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13912","title":{"rendered":"The Subject in Black and White: Afro-German Identity Formation in Ika H\u00fcgel-Marshall’s Autobiography Daheim unterwegs: Ein deutsches Leben"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Subject in Black and White: Afro-German Identity Formation in Ika H\u00fcgel-Marshall’s Autobiography Daheim unterwegs: Ein deutsches Leben<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Women in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature & Culture<\/a>
\nVolume 21<\/a> (2005)
\npages 62-84
\nDOI: 10.1353\/wgy.2005.0012<\/a>
\nE-ISSN: 1940-512X;Print ISSN: 1058-7446<\/p>\n

Deborah Janson<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages
\nWest Virginia University<\/em><\/p>\n

Black Germans still experience prejudice and social isolation based on their appearance. Alhough they are born and raised in Germany<\/a>, their fellow citizens often do not accept them as Germans because of their skin color. Such social exclusion makes it difficult for Black Germans to define for themselves who they are and where they belong. Yet through their own community-building efforts and the transnational diasporic interactions with Blacks in other countries, Black Germans are developing the means to resist marginalization and discrimination, to gain social acceptance, and to construct a cultural identity for themselves. This essay explores these and other aspects of Afro-German<\/a> identity formation via an examination of Ika H\u00fcgel-Marshall’s<\/a> autobiography<\/a>, a work that, until now, has received little scholarly attention despite its relevance to the ongoing\u2014albeit relatively new\u2014Black European identity movement. As an “occupation baby” of mixed-race origins who was raised in a Catholic home for children with special needs, H\u00fcgel-Marshall’s transformation from a neglected and abused child into an empowered and politically active adult is inspiring, while her experiences with racism are paradigmatic for the Black-German experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Subject in Black and White: Afro-German Identity Formation in Ika H\u00fcgel-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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,125,1196,8,25],"tags":[3228,6400,2948,6399,6398],"class_list":["post-13912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-identitydevelopment","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-afro-germans","tag-deborah-janson","tag-germany","tag-ika-hugel-marshall","tag-women-in-german-yearbook-feminist-studies-in-german-literature-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54510,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13912\/revisions\/54510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}