In this selection Sunny-Marie Birney, gives the reader an inside story on her background before elaborating on her main. She tells us how she was raised by a Euro-American family. Which does not exactly mean that they were not of color, but they did not help her identify with her African American race. She states that for 18 years she felt a void and a some what hole in her identity as a young black woman. However upon entering college she states that she begins to learn about herself. She does this by the influence of her college of her professors, whom were African American. I can relate to what she is stating too, because although I was not raised by Euro-American I still know what it is like not to be around a lot of people who look and somewhat think like me.
As she goes through her four years she begins to learn her identity and understand her African American heritage. She then states how this relates to service gives quotes from Carter G. Woodson and Paulo Friere. They talk of the liberation of education and how it can set us free from the oppression that has been created. She states next the three principles of the woman’s pedagogy. Basically she states that as women we have had the women of our past pave the way for our future and she states that it is our duty to carry on the torch so that we can pave the way for the future generations.
