#Non-fiction Clint Smith (essays)

• Author: Clint Smith (1988)
• Title: How the Word is Passed
  
• Published: 2021  (336 pg)
• Genre: non-fiction (African American Studies)
• Monthly plan
• #ReadDiversely
• #NonficNov hosts:
• Katie @DoingDewey
• Rennie @ What’s Nonfiction 
• Veronica @ The Thousand Book Project 
• Christopher @ Plucked From the Stacks
• Jaymi @ The OC Book Girl

 

Quick Scan:

1. A deeply researched look at the legacy of slavery
2. …and its imprint on centuries of American history.
3. If I could give a book a rating
4. with  10 stars…this is the one!
5. This book is #Must Read for high school students…
6. and in fact every American.
7. To say…I learned a lot
8. is an understatement.
9. This isn’t just a work of history,  but an exploration of
10. how we’re still distorting our history.
11. Favorite chapters: Monticello, Whitney Plantation,
12. Angola Prison and New York City.
13. #1 New York Times bestseller
14. Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction

Last thought tweet:

• #NonficNov essays by Clint Smith, “How the Word Is Passed”.
• Revelations of Black life in America… absorbing (if sometimes uncomfortable)
• reading because of the way it’s organized, as a travelogue of sorts
• ….but still a magnificent book!