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Nov
#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:
- A deeply researched look at the legacy of slavery
- …and its imprint on centuries of American history.
- If I could give a book a rating
- with 10 stars…this is the one!
- This book is #Must Read for high school students…
- and in fact every American.
- To say…I learned a lot
- is an understatement.
- This isn’t just a work of history, but an exploration of
- how we’re still distorting our history.
- Favorite chapters: Monticello, Whitney Plantation,
- Angola Prison and New York City.
- #1 New York Times bestseller
- 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!
NancyElin 