![]() ![]() As Aidoo says, "or the rest of her life, she was to regret this moment when she was made to notice differences in human colouring. For Sissie, these two incidences are a confrontation with the reality of racism which force her to recognize the way in which racial difference is used to construct and prop up power structures in a way in which she has never before experienced. ![]() ![]() Her second encounter with racism follows shortly thereafter at a railway station in Germany when a German woman points her out to her daughter as a black woman. Sissie's first encounter with racism takes place immediately upon her departure from Ghana on the plane to Europe which symbolically is coming from South Africa thus highlighting not only the continued presence of racism but also its relationship to the colonization of the African continent. Our Sister Killjoy: Characterizing Immigration/Emigration Megan Behrent, Brown University '97 Our Sister Killjoy: Characterizing Immigration/Emigration ![]()
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