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. Ein deutsches Leben (published in English as Invisible Woman: Growing up Black in Germany), discusses racism in Germany and her search for a family identity. She is exposed to the scorn and cruelty of the nuns entrusted with her care. 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. 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. 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.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. Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany, republished in a new annotated edition, recounts Ika Hgel-Marshalls experiences growing. Daughter of a white German woman and an African-American serviceman stationed in Germany after World War II, Ika Hngel-Marshall tells her troubling and engrossing story in Invisible Woman.The day after he learned that he had impregnated the German woman with whom he was having an affair, Ika's father was relocated to the U. 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.

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 Hugel-Marshall's experiences growing up as the daughter of a white German woman and an African-American man after World War II.

Invisible Woman by Ika Hugel-Marshall