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Michele Obama uses the first chapter of her book to describe the racial segregation and disparities between neighborhoods in 1960s Chicago. She discusses how white families migrated to the suburbs, increasing segregation. Obama reveals high levels of segregation between downtown and the south side, where she grew up. Her grandfather distrusted whites and warned his children of the dangers of going into white neighborhoods. The chapter introduces readers to the complexity of African American history during that time period.

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Michelle Obama PDF

Michele Obama uses the first chapter of her book to describe the racial segregation and disparities between neighborhoods in 1960s Chicago. She discusses how white families migrated to the suburbs, increasing segregation. Obama reveals high levels of segregation between downtown and the south side, where she grew up. Her grandfather distrusted whites and warned his children of the dangers of going into white neighborhoods. The chapter introduces readers to the complexity of African American history during that time period.

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My reflection on the first chapter

of Becoming by Michele Obama.

She tries to take us on a tour of her childhood life in Chicago.


She try to informs us about the United States’ political status
at the end of the 1960s. With the Kennedys dead and Martin
Luther King Jr being assassinated, the nation was in chaos.
White families began migrated to the suburbs on the back of a
promise of a better life, which in turn lead to increased racial
segregation.
In this chapter, she reveals the levels of racial segregation and
disparities between the Chicago’s downtown and its south
side and describes how she consciously observed the
segregated housing projects and the migration of white
families to the suburbs. Evidently, the Michele states that her
grandfather hated not only the police but also mistrusted the
whites. This led to him telling his children frightening stories to
his children about what happens to black children that went
into the wrong neighbourhood. The worlds disparities are also
evident during Robbie’s piano recital at Roosevelt University.
Michelle states that she had never seen a perfect piano in her
life, since her experience of the piano emanated from Robbie’s
little music room. The author uses her story in this chapter to
introduce the readers to the complexity and richness of African
American history, something that has hardly reached the
international audience.

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