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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: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2015.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Grimsley, Jim, > 1955- > Childhood and youth.
Segregation in education > North Carolina > Pollocksville > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Education > North Carolina > Pollocksville > History > 20th century.
Public schools > North Carolina > Pollocksville > History > 20th century.
Whites > North Carolina > Pollocksville > Biography.
African Americans > North Carolina > Pollocksville > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Freedom of choice/black bitch
  • An awkward fight
  • Tiger beat, Teen, Ebony, and Jet
  • Black and proud
  • The sign on the wheelchair
  • The kiss
  • 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
  • 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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