How I shed my skin
unlearning racist lessons of a Southern childhood
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Word Count
68,750 words, Guess
Page Count
275 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL26888347M
- Internet Archivehowishedmyskinun0000grim
- ISBN-101616203765
- ISBN-139781616203764
- Library of Congress Control Number2014038150
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Number886493254
- Better World BooksO7-BKQ-945
- Better World Books9781616203764
- Better World Books593-BAA-097
Classifications
- DDC379.2/630975621
- DDCB
- LCCLC212.522.N8 G75 2015
and 1 more
- LCCLC212.522.N8G75 2015
Description
"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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