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b'Clint Smith is a poet and a staff writer for\\xa0The Atlantic.\\xa0His most recent book is\\xa0How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America\\xa0and his latest feature is\\xa0\\u201cMonuments to the Unthinkable.\\u201d\\n\\u201cI\'ve been to a lot of places that carry a history of death and slaughter and murder. I\'ve been on plantations. I\'ve been in execution chambers. I\'ve sat on electric chairs. I\'ve been on death row. But I have never experienced anything like what I experienced walking through the gas chamber in Dachau. I mean, there\'s reading books about the Holocaust, and then there\'s that. And that is something that I hope to continue doing for the rest of my life: putting my body where these things happen. Because it completely transforms your understanding of what it was like.\\u201d\\nShow notes:\\n\\n@ClintSmithIII\\n\\nclintsmithiii.com\\n\\nSmith on Longform\\n\\nSmith\'s\\xa0Atlantic\\xa0archive\\n\\n00:00\\xa0How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America\\xa0(Little Brown \\u2022 2021)\\n\\n01:00\\xa0"Monuments to the Unthinkable"\\xa0(Atlantic \\u2022 Nov 2022)\\n\\n17:00\\xa0Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City\\xa0(Matthew Desmond \\u2022 Crown \\u2022 2017)\\n\\n33:00\\xa0The Hemingses of Monticello\\xa0(Annette Gordon-Reed \\u2022 W.W. Norton \\u2022 2009)\\n\\n34:00\\xa0Counting Descent\\xa0(Write Bloody Publishing \\u2022 2016)\\n\\n57:00\\xa0The Diary of a Young Girl\\xa0(Anne Frank \\u2022 1947)\\n\\n57:00\\xa0Number the Stars\\xa0(Lois Lowry \\u2022 Houghton Mifflin \\u2022 1989)\\n\\n1:07:00\\xa0"The Stories Tamir Rice Makes Us Remember"\\xa0(New Yorker \\u2022 Dec 2015)\\n\\n1:08:00\\xa0Smith\'s\\xa0New Yorker\\xa0archive\\n\\n\\n1:08:00\\xa0"Freddy Adu and the Children of the Beautiful Game"\\xa0(New Yorker \\u2022 Mar 2017)\\n\\n1:09:00\\xa0Above Ground\\xa0(Little Brown \\u2022 2023)\\n\\n1:09:00\\xa0Crash Course Black American History\\n\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'