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

• Main Author: Grimsley, Jim, 1955- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Chapel Hill : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2015
• Edition: First edition
• Subjects: Grimsley, Jim, > 1955-; 20. století; 20th century; Afroameričané > Severní Karolína > 20. století; běloši > Severní Karolína > 20. století; vzdělanostní nerovnosti > Severní Karolína > 20. století; veřejné školy > Severní Karolína > 20. století; African Americans > North Carolina > 20th century; whites > North Carolina > 20th century; educational inequalities > North Carolina > 20th century; public schools > North Carolina > 20th century; Severní Karolína > rasové vztahy; North Carolina > race relations; biografie; americké příběhy; biography; American stories

"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 classro...