Dinty W. Moore - Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial preju

Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling memoirs of recent years. Vivid, precise, and utterly honest, How I Shed My Skin is a time-machine of sorts, a reminder that our past is every bit as complex as our present, and that broad cultural changes are often intimate, personal, and idiosyncratic.

- Dinty W. Moore

topic: School, Past, Self, Time Machine, Racial Prejudice, Cultural Change