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

288 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction memoir race challenging reflective slow-paced
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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. Critically acclaimed novelist Jim Grimsley was eleven years old in 1966 when federally mandated integra...

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Moods

informative 66%
reflective 66%
challenging 50%
emotional 33%
hopeful 33%
tense 16%

Pace

medium 50%
slow 33%
fast 16%

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