Brown Girl Dreaming Essay

In Brown Girl Dreaming, for me at least, it was hard to find direct quotes that represented feminism and women empowerment. Instead, I looked at the book as a whole. As I previously mentioned, feminism does have woman’s rights in sight, but it also aims to reach for gender equality. Woodson goes above and beyond that. As a child, she became fascinated with poetry, especially the works of Langston Hughes. As a child, she struggled with reading and writing and looked at poetry as a code for white people by white people; she decided to decipher this code for every young reader. With a title like Brown Girl Dreaming, you’d think this book was aimed at a specific audience and was limited to just them, but in fact, Woodson wrote this memoir, with that title, to let it apply to more than one group of people. There’s this idea that if there are no children of color in a classroom, this book …show more content…
I cannot say I am an expert at the needs for children of color but it obvious that there is still a lack of diversity in literature. Many children need to see someone like them in books to understand that, they too, can be great and are beautiful enough to fill the pages of books, that they do not need to succumb to societal norms in order to succeed. This memoir is not only for “brown girls,” it is for those of us who support them, stand with them, and for anyone who is open to finding their inner power. If you feed this knowledge to children, from an early age, I believe you have to power to make an impression on them. Racist ways are learned, it is not a generic trait, neither is sexism. It is important that she write this material for this group of children. They are at an age where they are looking for answers, they’re curious and receptive to new ideas. Woodson sees her curiosity within them and that’s why she makes them a target