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My Vanishing Country - A Memoir (Paperback)
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My Vanishing Country - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Loot Price R270
Discovery Miles 2 700
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New York Times Bestseller 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.
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