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How I Shed My Skin ─ Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood
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ISBN13：9781616205348
出版社：Workman Pub Co
作者：Jim Grimsley
出版日：2016/02/23
裝訂／頁數：平裝／272頁
規格：20.3cm*14cm*1.3cm (高/寬/厚)
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“A powerful meditation on race.” —Natasha Trethewey, U.S. Poet Laureate
Acclaimed novelist Jim Grimsley was eleven years old in 1966 when the school in his small eastern North Carolina town was first integrated, the year federally mandated integration of the schools went into effect in the state.
His family shared the community’s dismay over the mixing of the races, yet young Jim found himself on the front lines of his school’s desegregation. What he did not realize until he began to meet these new students was just how deeply ingrained his own prejudices were, and how those prejudices had developed in him despite the fact that prior to starting sixth grade, he had actually never known any black people.
Now, almost fifty years later, Grimsley looks back at that school and those turbulent times--as alliances were formed and friendships established--and asks, how far we have really come?
“A beautifully written coming-of-age recollection from the era of racial desegregation.” —Booklist, starred review
“The boy in this narrative is becoming a man in a time of enormous change, and his point of view is like a razor cutting through a callous. Painful and healing. Forthright and enormously engaging.” —Dorothy Allison, author ofBastard Out of Carolina
“How I Shed My Skin is, simply put, a brilliant book . . . straightforward and plain-spoken while at the same time achingly moving and intimately honest, and it does more to explain the South than anything I’ve read in a long, long time.”—Josephine Humphreys, author of No Where Else on Earth
Acclaimed novelist Jim Grimsley was eleven years old in 1966 when the school in his small eastern North Carolina town was first integrated, the year federally mandated integration of the schools went into effect in the state.
His family shared the community’s dismay over the mixing of the races, yet young Jim found himself on the front lines of his school’s desegregation. What he did not realize until he began to meet these new students was just how deeply ingrained his own prejudices were, and how those prejudices had developed in him despite the fact that prior to starting sixth grade, he had actually never known any black people.
Now, almost fifty years later, Grimsley looks back at that school and those turbulent times--as alliances were formed and friendships established--and asks, how far we have really come?
“A beautifully written coming-of-age recollection from the era of racial desegregation.” —Booklist, starred review
“The boy in this narrative is becoming a man in a time of enormous change, and his point of view is like a razor cutting through a callous. Painful and healing. Forthright and enormously engaging.” —Dorothy Allison, author ofBastard Out of Carolina
“How I Shed My Skin is, simply put, a brilliant book . . . straightforward and plain-spoken while at the same time achingly moving and intimately honest, and it does more to explain the South than anything I’ve read in a long, long time.”—Josephine Humphreys, author of No Where Else on Earth
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