My Vanishing Country A Memoir

Bakari Sellers

eBook - 2020

New York Times Bestseller: This insightful and deeply personal portrait of African American working-class life "offers something so authentic . . . compelling" (Charleston Post and Courier).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 Bakari Sellers' hometown of Denmark, South Carolina, My Vanishing 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 a friend of Stokely Carmichael and Martin Luther King, civil rights hero, and member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), in the proc...ess exploring 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... more