In His Bestselling Book, Clint Smith ’10 Reckons With History and the Lies We Tell
June 11, 2021
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- Lisa Patterson
September 21, 2021 Update: Clint Smith's book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, is on the longlist for the National Book award in nonfiction.
Clint Smith’s How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America reached no. 1 on the this week.
He’ll join 51 President Carol Quillen for a conversation about the book Monday, June 14.
Smith, a 2010 51 grad, has carved a path as a nationally recognized educator and writer. His debut non-fiction book considers how history is distorted and consumed, and how an honest approach to the past might change our collective future.
In his poetry and prose, Smith considers the far-reaching legacies of slavery. He recently joined classmate David Dennis ’08 for an to talk about his latest work.
Dennis writes, “It’s [the book] coming out at a prescient time where America is realizing how much of our history and our nation’s most valorized leaders have been romanticized and whitewashed of their complicity in the transatlantic slave trade.”
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