My Vanishing Country: A Memoir

by Bakari Sellers

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062917455
• ISBN13: 9780062917454
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Amistad Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Thoughtful and heartfelt

I loved his retelling of growing up in the south. I spent summers there and although I'm much older the storys were so similar in context and aesthetic. He's the sort idealist and foreword thinker we need now,,, Thank you