Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

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

5 reviews

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Powerful. Compelling. Devastating. I learned a lot I didn’t know about myriad locations around the country (and world) that were and still are institutions of slavery and oppression. There’s a lot to unpack and reckon with about our history as a nation in this book and I think it’s worth the discomfort to know more about the nation’s real history. 

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Content Warnings

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

brynalexa's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Poetic, powerful, and thought-provoking. Filled in some gaps in my education while inspiring me to seek out more information on the world’s cruel history. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Rape, Slavery, Bullying, Torture, Violence, Child death, Colonisation, Grief, Kidnapping, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Genocide, Hate crime, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Xenophobia

caseythereader's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

 - I'm not sure if there's anything I can add to the discussion of HOW THE WORD IS PASSED, other than to concur with everyone that yes, this book is as vital and as good as everyone says it is.
- 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. 

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Content Warnings

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

bootsmom3's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Violence

erica_palmisano's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

Thoughtfully framed, well-narrated, personal yet very relatable, this book is a great entry in the Rethinking American Racism canon. I hope it inspires a lot more ways/instances of sharing the history of slavery in the US. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Gore, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Violence