An edition of How I shed my skin
(2015)
How I shed my skin
unlearning racist lessons of a Southern childhood
First edition.
by Jim Grimsley
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"In August of 1966, Jim Grimsley entered the sixth grade in the same public school he had attended for the five previous years in his small eastern North Carolina hometown. But he knew that the first day of this school year was going to be different: for the first time he'd be in a classroom with black children ... Now, over forty years later, Grimsley ... revisits that school and those times, remembering his personal reaction to his first real exposure to black children and to their culture, and his growing awareness of his own mostly unrecognized racist attitudes"--
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Whites, Segregation in education, Public schools, Education, African Americans, Childhood and youth, Biography, History, New York Times reviewed, African americans, education, Public schools, united states, African americans, biography, North carolina, biography, African americans, north carolinaPeople
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How I shed my skin: unlearning racist lessons of a Southern childhood
2015, Algonquin Books
in English
- First edition.
1616203765 9781616203764
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Table of Contents
Freedom of choice/black bitch
An awkward fight
Tiger beat, Teen, Ebony, and Jet
Black and proud
The sign on the wheelchair
The kiss
The hierarchy of place
The learning
The fight in the yard
White nigger
Divinely white
Good old boy
Johnny Shiloh
The shoe man
The uncomfortable dark
The maid in the weeds
Integration
The J.W. Willie School/bag lunch
The drowning
Robert
No longer separate, not really equal
Cheap
The mighty Trojans
Some of us dancing
The human relations committee
Protests
God gave me a song
The smoking patio
Horizons
Mercy
Commencement
Reunion.
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