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  • HOW I SHED MY SKIN: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood. by Grimsley, Jim
    Grimsley, Jim
    HOW I SHED MY SKIN: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2015). First edition - A moving memoir by this acclaimed novelist - "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.. . 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…

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    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2015). First edition - A moving memoir by this acclaimed novelist - "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.. . 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, more than forty years later, he looks back at that school and those times - remembering his own first real encounters with black children and their culture." Booklist called this "a beautifully written coming-of-age recollection from the era of racial desegregation." 275 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 88104
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  • Shange, Ntozake.
    BETSEY BROWN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A coming of age story set in the colored community of St. Louis, Missouri: Betsey is in 1959, the year when court ordered school integration began. The second novel by the acclaimed poet, author of "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf". SIGNED by the author. 207 pp. ISBN: 0-312-077270.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 5394
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  • Shange, Ntozake.
    BETSEY BROWN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A coming of age story set in the colored community of St. Louis, Missouri: Betsey is in 1959, the year when court ordered school integretation began. The second novel by the acclaimed poet, author of "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf".207 pp. ISBN: 0-312-077270.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. (price-clipped.)

    Book ID: 5415
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  • Shange, Ntozake.
    BETSEY BROWN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A coming of age story set in the colored community of St. Louis, Missouri: Betsey is in 1959, the year when court ordered school integretation began. The second novel by the acclaimed poet, author of "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf".207 pp. ISBN: 0-312-077270.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. (slight sunning to spine of dj )

    Book ID: 34893
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  • Shange, Ntozake.
    BETSEY BROWN.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    New York: St Martin's, (1985.) dj. Hardcover - A coming of age story set in the colored community of St. Louis, Missouri: Betsey is in 1959, the year when court ordered school integretation began. The second novel by the acclaimed poet, author of "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf".207 pp. ISBN: 0-312-077270.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. (slight sunning to spine of dj )

    Book ID: 35535
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  • BETSEY BROWN. by Shange, Ntozake.
    Shange, Ntozake.
    BETSEY BROWN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A coming of age story set in the colored community of St. Louis, Missouri: Betsey is in 1959, the year when court ordered school integretation began. The second novel by the acclaimed poet, author of "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf".207 pp. ISBN: 0-312-077270.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 80966
    View cart More details Price: $21.50