The Mixed Experience

a mixed chick on a mixed-up world

  • Home
  • About The Mixed Experience
  • The Mixed Experience Minute
  • How to Listen to the Podcast
  • Contact Me!
You are here: Home / Books / Season 2, Bonus Episode 4: Writer Jim Grimsley, How I Shed My Skin

Season 2, Bonus Episode 4: Writer Jim Grimsley, How I Shed My Skin

April 17, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

How I Shed My Skin Jim GrimsleyRecorded 4/29/15: I had a great talk with writer Jim Grimsley, author of How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Lessons of a Racist Childhood.  In the memoir, Grimsley looks back at his own childhood, growing up poor and white in the South, and how he experienced the desegregation of schools in the aftermath of the Brown v. Board of Education decision.  Now decades later, he has written about coming into his own understanding of his own prejudices and looks at how far we have come as a nation in our understanding of the racial and cultural connectedness of different races.  You can listen here, or download the episode from itunes.-Heidi Durrow

An interview with Jim Grimsley on his new book. “A powerful meditation on race.” —Natasha Trethewey, US Poet Laureate

Click To Tweet

Grimsley, Jim_credit to Kay Hinton Emory University_HRJim Grimsley is the author of four previous novels, among them Winter Birds, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award; Dream Boy, winner of the GLBTF Book Award for literature; My Drowning, a Lila-Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award winner; and Comfort and Joy. He lives in Atlanta and teaches at Emory University.

An interview with .@JimGrimsley1 : Unlearning Lessons of a Racist Childhood #multiracial

Click To Tweet

Filed Under: Books, Episodes Tagged With: biracial, mixed, mixed remixed festival, mixed roots, multiracial

« Season 2, Episode 23: Listener Spotlight Mixed Chick Peg Bolduc
Season 2, Episode 25: Author of ReJane, Patricia Park »

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Host Heidi Durrow

Host Heidi Durrow

Heidi Durrow is the New York Times best-selling writer of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky and the founder of the original mixed roots film and book festival and now the founder of Mixed Remixed Festival , an annual film, book and performance festival, which will be held next on June 10-11, 2016 at … [Read More]

Recent Posts

  • Season 5, Episode 3: Award-Winning Writer Amina Gautier November 14, 2017
  • Season 5, Episode 2: New York Times Bestselling Writer Julie Lythcott-Haims October 12, 2017
  • Season 4, Episode 19: Writer/Literary Critic Janet Savage July 3, 2017
  • Mixed Experience History Month 2017: Paula Gunn Allen, writer and scholar May 17, 2017
  • Mixed Experience History Month 2017: Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, Educator & Activist May 16, 2017

The Mixed Experience Minute Vlog

the mixed experience by heidi durrow

The Mixed Experience Minute

In 2007, I instituted Mixed Experience History Month to celebrate historical stories of the Mixed … [Read More...]

Guest Host Jennifer Frappier

Guest Host Jennifer Frappier

I'm so excited that Jennifer Frappier will join The Mixed Experience as a guest host on future … [Read More...]

Podcast Episodes

the mixed experience by heidi durrow

The Mixed Experience Podcast

You can find all episodes and information about guests of The Mixed Experience podcast here and also … [Read More...]

Copyright © 2025 · Foodie Child Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in