How I Shed My Skin by Jim Grimsley - 9781616205348

Jim Grimsley

How I Shed My SkinUnlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood\nAuthor(s): Jim Grimsley\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Workman Publishing, United States\nImprint: Algonquin Books\nISBN-13: 9781616205348, 978-1616205348\nSynopsis\nMore than sixty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that Americas schools could no longer be segregated by race. Critically acclaimed novelist Jim Grimsley was eleven years old in 1966 when federally mandated integration of schools went into effect in the state and the school in his small eastern North Carolina town was first integrated. Until then, blacks and whites didnt sit next to one another in a public space or eat in the same restaurants, and they certainly didnt go to school together. Going to one of the private schools that almost immediately sprang up was not an option for Jim: his family was too poor to pay tuition, and while they shared the communitys dismay over the mixing of the races, they had no choice b.