Clint Smith on Cultures of Remembrance in the U.S. & Germany
“Physically putting your body in a place where history happened gives you a different sense of intimacy, a different sense of proximity to that history.” In the final episode of our podcast, author, poet, and scholar Clint Smith speaks about the importance of collectively reckoning with history, the legacy of slavery in U.S.-American identity, and cultures of remembrance in the U.S. and Germany. He is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, and the best-selling poetry collection Above Ground, as well as the award-winning poetry collection Counting Descent. Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic.