Summary Of Brown Girl Dreaming By Jacqueline Woodson

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Family is one of the biggest forms of identity for many people, whether growing up with a nice family or a poor family, big or small it is a huge impact on everyone. In the memoir Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, she was born in 1963 and grew up after the Civil Right Movement in the south. Being African American she went through a lot with that and ended up moving to live with many different family members throughout her childhood. When she was young, Jacqueline moved away from her dad and went to live with her grandparents and mom, and siblings in South Carolina and experienced a lot of racism. So far, Jacqueline's family has influenced her the most by how different they all are toward her.
Jacqueline's Grandpa, “Daddy” had a big