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

"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...

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Main Author Grimsley, Jim, 1955- (Author)
Format Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Chapel Hill : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2015
EditionFirst 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

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Table of Contents:
  • PART I. BIAS
  • Freedom of choice/black bitch
  • An awkward fight
  • Tiger Beat, Teen, Ebony, and Jet
  • Black and proud
  • The sign on the wheelchair
  • The kiss
  • PART II. ORIGINS
  • 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
  • PART III. CHANGE
  • 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.

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