Invisible Woman - Softcover

Hugel-Marshall, Ika

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826414516 ISBN 13: 9780826414519

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2002

Synopsis

Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black In Germany

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About the Author:

The Author: Ika Hugel-Marshall has a degree in social pedagogics. She is teaching gender studies and psychological counseling at the Alice-Salomon-Fachhochschule fur Sozialarbeit und Sozialpadagogik in Berlin. Trained as a counselor, she primarily works with intercultural teams and bi-national couples. Ika Hugel-Marshall has published various articles on anti-racist consciousness raising and is co-editor of Entfernte Verbindungen: Rassismus, Antisemitismus und Klassenunterdruckung (1993). In 1996, Ika Hugel-Marshall received the Audre Lorde Literary Award for the completion of Invisible Woman. She has given numerous readings in Germany, Austria, and the United States. An artist, she has designed book covers and exhibited her drawings and wood sculptures.

Synopsis:

The daughter of an African-American serviceman and a German woman, the author was removed from her family and placed in an orphanage at the age of seven. She finally met her biological father in 1993 to discover a past she had never known.

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0826414516
• ISBN 13: 9780826414519
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144