Reading the first half of Brown Girl Dreaming, I’m actually enjoying it. Brown Girl Dreaming is about an African American family living in the 1960s. The story is narrated by Jackie. Jackie in the beginning of the book is only a toddler but slowly growing up. She has two older siblings one sister and one brother: Dell, and Hope. She later gets a younger sibling, Roman, a little brother.

The story starts in Ohio, where Jackie is living with her two older siblings, and both her mother and father. After a little while Jackie’s parents split up and the three kids move with the mother down to South Carolina where the mother’s grandparents live.

The social dynamic in the south is different than the north. The north black people are treated with more equality, still not completely equal but more than the south. In the south they have to sit in the back of the bus, they have to say “yes sir” and “no sir” they are still forced to treat white people like they are more superior to themselves, and they are allowed to be disrespected and treated less than.

With all of that in mind, I really love how the family raises the three children. Even though living in the south is harder than living in the north, the family still makes sure that the children are being raised to know that they are equal and that they do matter in this society unlike how they are being treated. The grandmother works two jobs just to make sure that her family can eat. This family works so hard to provide and to make sure the children don’t go without.

This book can be compared to today’s society. When we read this book we are so angry that people are being treated like second class citizens and how it’s not fair, but even still today there is no equality between anyone of ethnicity and white people. Racism is still alive and well, as we can see on the new about Muslims. This is hard fact to swallow but the sooner we realize that it’s a problem the sooner we can address it and learn to make changes as a whole. Ignoring a problem will only create more problems.