My
Vanishing Country: A Memoir
by Bakari Sellers
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What
J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives
in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rural South, in this
important book that illuminates the lives of America’s forgotten black
working-class men and women.
Part memoir, part historical
and cultural analysis, My Vanishing Country is an eye-opening journey through
the South's past, present, and future.
Anchored in in Bakari Seller’s
hometown of Denmark, South Carolina, Country illuminates the pride and pain
that continues to fertilize the soil of one of the poorest states in the nation.
He traces his father’s rise to become, friend of Stokely Carmichael and Martin
Luther King, a civil rights hero, and member of the Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC) , to explore the plight of the South's dwindling
rural, black working class―many of whom can trace their ancestry back for seven
generations.
In his poetic personal history,
we are awakened to the crisis affecting the other “Forgotten Men & Women,”
who the media seldom acknowledges. For Sellers, these are his family members,
neighbors, and friends. He humanizes the struggles that shape their lives: to
gain access to healthcare as rural hospitals disappear; to make ends meet as
the factories they have relied on shut down and move overseas; to hold on to
precious traditions as their towns erode; to forge a path forward without
succumbing to despair.
My Vanishing Country is also a
love letter to fatherhood―to Sellers' father, his lodestar, whose life lessons
have shaped him, and to his newborn twins, who he hopes will embrace the
Sellers family name and honor its legacy.
Product
details
Hardcover : 240 pages
Publisher : Amistad (May 19,
2020)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0062917455
ISBN-13 : 978-0062917454
Product Dimensions : 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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