How I shed my skin / Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood
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Published
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2015.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781616203764 : HRD, 1616203765 : HRD
Physical Desc
275 pages; cm
Status
Kilton Public Library - Nonfiction
379.2 GRI
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379.2 GRI
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LC Subjects
African Americans -- Education -- North Carolina -- Pollocksville -- History -- 20th century.
Grimsley, Jim, -- 1955- -- Childhood and youth.
Public schools -- North Carolina -- Pollocksville -- History -- 20th century. -- Whites -- North Carolina -- Pollocksville -- Biography. -- African Americans -- North Carolina -- Pollocksville -- Biography.
Segregation in education -- North Carolina -- Pollocksville -- History -- 20th century.
Grimsley, Jim, -- 1955- -- Childhood and youth.
Public schools -- North Carolina -- Pollocksville -- History -- 20th century. -- Whites -- North Carolina -- Pollocksville -- Biography. -- African Americans -- North Carolina -- Pollocksville -- Biography.
Segregation in education -- North Carolina -- Pollocksville -- History -- 20th century.
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Published
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2015.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Street Date
1504
Language
English
ISBN
9781616203764 : HRD, 1616203765 : HRD
Notes
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: forthe first time he'd be in a classroom with black children. That was the year federally mandated integration of the schools went into effect, at first allowing students to change schools through 'freedom of choice,' replaced two years later by forced integration. For Jim, going to one of the private schools that almost immediately sprang up was not an option: his family was too poor to consider paying tuition, and while they shared the community's dismay over the mixing of the races, they had bigger, moreimmediate problems to contend with. Now, over forty years later, Grimsley, a critically acclaimed novelist, revisits that school and those times, remembering his personal reaction to his first real exposure to black children and to their culture, and hisgrowing awareness of his own mostly unrecognized racist attitudes. Good White People is both true and deeply moving, an important work that takes readers inside those classrooms and onto the playing fields as, ever so tentatively, alliances were forged and friendships established"--
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Grimsley, J. (2015). How I shed my skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood (First edition.). Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Grimsley, Jim, 1955-. 2015. How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Grimsley, Jim, 1955-. How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Grimsley, Jim. How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood First edition., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2015.
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