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

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. . . Good people taught and still teach racism to their children without a second thought. This was true in the South of my birth and remains so to the present . . . We teach that God created the races to be separate from one another for a purpose, and we preach that this purpose cannot be to mix, because why then would He have created the separation in the first place? We teach that when people are different from each other, one is better and the other worse . . . We teach that black and white are not simply different but opposite. --from How I Shed My Skin

"Race has been at the forefront of the national conversation . . . The country is discussing how far we still have to go. How I Shed My Skin, by Jim Grimsley, is a white writer's story of that journey--where we've come from and how we move forward." --The Washington Post

"Grimsley says, 'I was a good little racist' . . . It's the defining moment in Grimsley's new memoir about desegregation, a

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How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood
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09781616205348

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