How I shed my skin
unlearning racist lessons of a Southern childhood
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
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1616203765 9781616203764
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