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...

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Main Author: Sellers, Bakari, 1984- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
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.