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How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood

Jim Grimsley

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Description:More than sixty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that America’s schools could no longer be segregated by race. Novelist Jim Grimsley was eleven years old in 1966 when federally mandated integration of schools went into effect in the state and the school in his small eastern North Carolina town was first integrated. What Jim did not realize until he began to meet these new students was just how deeply ingrained his own prejudices were and how those prejudices had developed in him despite the fact that prior to starting sixth grade, he had actually never known any black people. Now, more than forty years later, Grimsley looks back at that school and those times--remembering his own first real encounters with black children and their culture. Jim takes readers into those classrooms and onto the playing fields as, ever so tentatively, alliances were forged and friendships established. And looking back from today’s perspective, he examines how far we have really come.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood. To get started finding How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 275

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ISBN: 1616203765

Description: More than sixty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that America’s schools could no longer be segregated by race. Novelist Jim Grimsley was eleven years old in 1966 when federally mandated integration of schools went into effect in the state and the school in his small eastern North Carolina town was first integrated. What Jim did not realize until he began to meet these new students was just how deeply ingrained his own prejudices were and how those prejudices had developed in him despite the fact that prior to starting sixth grade, he had actually never known any black people. Now, more than forty years later, Grimsley looks back at that school and those times--remembering his own first real encounters with black children and their culture. Jim takes readers into those classrooms and onto the playing fields as, ever so tentatively, alliances were forged and friendships established. And looking back from today’s perspective, he examines how far we have really come.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood. To get started finding How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood

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