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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
8 reviews
kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Genocide, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Violence, Colonisation, Gore, Classism, Death, Racial slurs, War, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Child abuse, and Child death
analenegrace's review
I cannot recommend reading this book, especially if you're trying to deconstruct what racism in America looks like. While there are so many lines I marked as pivotal to the book, the most important comes on page 289 in his epilogue,
"The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to it. It is not irrelevant to our contemporary society; it created it. This history is in our soil, it is in our policies, and it must, too, be in our memories."
Graphic: Torture, Classism, War, Racism, Genocide, Grief, Violence, Murder, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Police brutality, Confinement, Death, Medical content, Hate crime, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Trafficking
katiea714's review
4.5
Graphic: Torture, War, Violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Confinement, and Cultural appropriation
shieldbearer's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence
Moderate: Rape and War
bookedbymadeline's review
5.0
Graphic: Slavery, Racism, Racial slurs, Death, Violence, and Colonisation
Moderate: Rape, Child death, Kidnapping, War, and Genocide
Minor: Police brutality
madradstarchild's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Slavery, Racism, and Hate crime
Moderate: Genocide, Death, Racial slurs, Colonisation, and Confinement
Minor: Child death, War, Torture, Murder, Police brutality, Child abuse, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Rape
caseythereader's review
5.0
- I learned a lot from this book: even if you're read a lot of history and antiracist literature, there's still more to excavate, and Smith brings it all up.
- Smith's inclusion of his personal experiences while visiting the sites in this book keep it from becoming a dry historical text. It does exactly what the sites are trying to do: bring the past into the present because it has never left us, as much as many of us try to pretend it has.
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, Violence, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Rape, Religious bigotry, Torture, and War
cianarae's review
3.75
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Bullying, Slavery, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, War, and Xenophobia