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

The Resource How I shed my skin : unlearning racist lessons of a Southern childhood
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How I shed my skin : unlearning racist lessons of a Southern childhood
Title remainder
unlearning racist lessons of a Southern childhood
Statement of responsibility
Jim Grimsley
Title variation
Unlearning the racist lessons of a Southern childhood
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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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Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
CGP
Dewey number
  • 379.2/630975621
  • B
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no index present
LC call number
LC212.522.N8
LC item number
G75 2015
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography

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