Summer

Dave Smith
Per. 7
12-15-99
Summer Essay


In Sweet Summer, Bebe Moore Campbell tells her own life story. A lot of it is about fitting into the “white” world and finding out who she really is. Bebe and her family members felt that African Americans always felt as if they had to compete with whites, and either be as good or better than them. African Americans thought that speaking proper English and being educated was going to make them seem white. African Americans thought that “good hair” was white people’s hair, and they always tried to make their hair look straight, because then they would have “good hair” and look more white. In the book Sweet Summer, the attempt by African Americans to fit into the “white world” is important because people were putting down their own race for being educated or so called “acting whi...