Clint Smith

The Embodied Narrator in How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

The Embodied Narrator in How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith’s new book is an examination of memory through an examination of sites that represent our country’s collective memory of slavery. He makes an important and effective call for us to examine how we remember our past, and how central our historical memory is to our existence today.