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

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

Jim Grimsley

305 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction memoir race challenging reflective slow-paced
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"White people declared that the South would rise again. Black people raised one fist and chanted for black power. Somehow we negotiated a space between those poles and learned to sit in classrooms together . . . Lawyers, judges, adults declared th...

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reflective: 66%

challenging: 50%

emotional: 33%

hopeful: 33%

tense: 16%


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