"Brown Girl Dreaming” is a memoir by Jacqueline Woodson. She tells of her childhood as an African American in the American Northeast and South in the 1960s. Born in Columbus, Ohio, to the descendants of former slaves, Jacqueline is named after her father, Jack, much to the chagrin of her mother, Mary Ann.
Top-Down is used to refer to a situation in which decisions are made by a few people in authority rather than by the people who are affected by the decisions
