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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

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5.0

Everyone should read this book. That is not something I say often, or something I say lightly, but I truly believe it. While I had studied the Middle Passage and the Map of No Return in grad school, reading Clint Smith's deeply affective, embodied reactions to places like Goree Island and Angora Prison was gut-wrenching and deeply emotional. Smith is a poet, and his own emotional reactions are viscerally written about here. He manages to balance that deep emotion with interviews and well-researched history, bringing it all together in a way that is deeply compelling and challenged me to think through my own history and memory through a new lens.
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5.0

A stunning piece of work. Smith is a deeply gifted writer, and his collection is a reminder that unpacking the history I've been told (/sold) is a lifelong responsibility. I hope everyone finds themselves a copy and leans into the knowledge, both old and new.

p.s. I challenge anyone to read his piece on Angola Prison and tell me sincerely that prisons "do good." I long for a collective imagination that can see beyond them.
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5.0

This took me a while to read not because it’s boring but only because each page or paragraph I read makes want to sit and reflect on everything I’ve learned in high school textbooks.
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5.0

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3.0

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