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How I shed my skin : unlearning racist lessons of a Southern childhood, Jim Grimsley

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Summary
"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"--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xii, 275 pages
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
Isbn
9781616205348
Instance
Label
How I shed my skin : unlearning racist lessons of a Southern childhood
Title
How I shed my skin
Title remainder
unlearning racist lessons of a Southern childhood
Statement of responsibility
Jim Grimsley
Title variation
Unlearning the racist lessons of a Southern childhood
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"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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Writing style
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Provided by publisher
Biography type
autobiography
http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
10411327
Cataloging source
CGP
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1955-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Grimsley, Jim
Dewey number
  • 379.2/630975621
  • B
Index
no index present
LC call number
LC212.522.N8
LC item number
G75 2015
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
True
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Grimsley, Jim
  • Segregation in education
  • African Americans
  • Public schools
  • Whites
  • African Americans
http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
unlearning the racist lessons of a Southern childhood
Label
How I shed my skin : unlearning racist lessons of a Southern childhood, Jim Grimsley
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xii, 275 pages
Isbn
9781616205348
Lccn
2014038150
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Stock number
1388704
System control number
(OCoLC)907099949
Label
How I shed my skin : unlearning racist lessons of a Southern childhood, Jim Grimsley
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xii, 275 pages
Isbn
9781616205348
Lccn
2014038150
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Stock number
1388704
System control number
(OCoLC)907099949

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