It answers the title’s question with often elegant emphasis. This is an elegiac discourse, sometimes a trifle overwrought. But because of his scholarly curiosity and zeal, his quest includes many more. New Orleans, the poet-author’s home town Jefferson’s Monticello the revisionist tourist attraction at the Whitney Plantation the infamous maximum security prison at the 16,000-acre Angola Plantation Blandford Cemetery, a Confederate shrine with Tiffany windows Galveston Island, commemorating Juneteenth New York City, enriched by slave-based enterprise and Gorée Island, with its gate of no return, in Senegal.Īll are stops on Smith’s pilgrimage. He can be found on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.Engaging our nation’s “curious institution” – “our un-atoned original sin” – the book purports to examine just eight sites. Born and raised in New Orleans, he currently lives in Maryland with his wife and their two children.
in English from Davidson College and his Ph.D. He is the host of the YouTube series Crash Course Black American History.Ĭlint received his B.A. Sarbanes Teacher of the Year by the Maryland Humanities Council. Previously, Clint taught high school English in Prince George’s County, Maryland where he was named the Christine D. Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review.
He is a former National Poetry Slam champion and a recipient of the Jerome J. His essays, poems, and scholarly writing have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, the Harvard Educational Review, and elsewhere. Mellon Foundation, New America, the Emerson Collective, the Art For Justice Fund, Cave Canem, and the National Science Foundation.
He is a staff writer at The Atlantic.Ĭlint has received fellowships from the Andrew W. He is also the author of two books of poetry, the New York Times bestselling collection Above Ground and Counting Descent, which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. Clint Smith is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, the Stowe Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2021.
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