My vanishing country a memoir
"An eye-opening odyssey through the South's past, present, and future that is a moving and gripping tribute to America's forgotten rural working-class black folks. The small town of Denmark was once a thriving hub of South Carolina's idyllic Low Country. Yet today, this majority African-American tow...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Black, country, and proud
- The wounds have not healed: "don't be a dead hero"
- Black and forgotten
- School daze: the making of a Morehouse man
- The making of a politician, part 1
- The making of a politician, part 2
- Dreaming with my eyes open: becoming a leader
- Risk taking
- Anxiety: a black man's superpower
- A voice for the voiceless
- Why are the strongest women in the world dying?
- Why 2016 happened and the power of rhetoric.
