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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sellers, Bakari, 1984- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Sellers, Bakari, > 1984- South Carolina. > General Assembly. > House of Representatives > Biography. African American legislators > South Carolina > Biography. Legislators > South Carolina > Biography. Rural African Americans > South Carolina > Social conditions > 20th century. Racism > South Carolina > History > 21st century. Denmark (S.C.) > Biography.

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.