

How I Shed My Skin
Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood
Author: Jim Grimsley
Narrator: Henry Leyva
Unabridged: 7 hr 2 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 04/14/2015
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs
Synopsis
For Jim, going to one of the private schools that almost immediately sprang up was not an option: his family was too poor to consider paying tuition, and while they shared the community's dismay over the mixing of the races, they had bigger, more immediate problems to contend with.
Now, over forty years later, Grimsley, a critically acclaimed novelist, revisits that school and those times, remembering his own personal reaction to his first real exposure to black children and to their culture, and to his growing awareness of his own mostly unrecognized racist attitudes. Good White People is both true and deeply moving, an important work that takes readers inside those classrooms and onto the playing fields as, ever so tentatively, alliances were forged and friendships established.