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My Vanishing Country
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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 audiobook 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 journey through the South's past, present, and future.
Anchored in in Bakari Seller’s hometown of Denmark, South Carolina, Sellers 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, friend of Stokely Carmichael and Martin Luther King, a civil rights hero, and member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) , to explore 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 other “Forgotten Men and Women” whom the media seldom acknowledges. For Sellers, these are his family members, neighbors, and friends. He humanizes the struggles that shape their lives: to gain access to healthcare as rural hospitals disappear; to make ends meet as the factories they have relied on shut down and move overseas; to hold on to precious traditions as their towns erode; to forge a path forward without succumbing to despair.
My Vanishing Country is also a love letter to fatherhood - to Sellers' father, his lodestar, whose life lessons have shaped him, and to his newborn twins, who he hopes will embrace the Sellers family name and honor its legacy.
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- Unknown
- 05-22-20
What America Needs NOW!!!
I’ve watched Bakari Sellers on CNN many times and often wondered “who is this kid” going in on and often toe-to-toe with many political pundits? After reading “My Vanishing Country,” I am grateful for the opportunity to peer through the window of the eyes of a young, gifted and yes talented African American male who is unapologetically honest — while at the same, truthful and vulnerable in sharing his story: A story about an America that is vanishing before our very eyes.
This is a story that anyone who sincerely loves the spirit of America needs to read and hear regardless of race, ethnicity, class, creed or cultural background. It is a story which has woven the stories of many young and elder African American males who struggle to have not only their voices heard, but the many groups who are voiceless heard as well.
The son of a father of the Civil Rights movement, Sellers shares the very real story of his father’s involvement in the Movement, along with images of his own upbringing. Sellers shares his family, his love, his fears in a memoir that is so needed for this current generation.
When I saw a now fully bearded Bakari on CNN recently, I had no idea I would be drawn into a very remarkable book and so grateful to have taken this journey through his past, his present and his very promising future.
Our country will not vanish with voices like Bakari Sellers crying out in the wilderness.
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- Tigerron Wells
- 05-24-20
A must read.
An honest and unabashedly opinionated memoir. This is not a fluff piece crafted with an eye towards a future run for office, but is rather a baring of the soul. Probably one of the most transparent and authentically introspective writings you’ll read from a politico, young or old.
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- Southern Belle
- 06-09-20
Delightful!
I enjoyed listening to My Vanishing Country especially during this tumultuous time in our history. It touched my heart that Bakari thought enough of the Black female to include insight on our physical health disparities and struggles with mental health. Thank you for helping me endure the qurantine brought on by COVID-19.
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- Travis O Spears
- 05-20-20
Amazing
I connected with this memoir as a fellow son of Carolina who grew up in one of its small towns like Bakari. The detail with which he paints the pictures put you there. The case he lays out for the poor and marginalized is well thought out and carefully supported. I can’t wait for the second book.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-01-20
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Excellent on telling his story, said nothing about how to move our country forward and wasted a lot of time talking about others bigotry and nothing about our great country that many of us have been able to move out of poverty and what it takes, more government is not the answer.
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- Lee
- 05-28-20
Real talk!
Loved this book. It is an unapologetic look at being a proud, caring African American man from the south. Thank you for representing our truths and stories with Grace and insight.
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- Lamont Reed
- 05-24-20
Job well done
Very well thought out memoir. I enjoyed every minute of it. I liked it so much I finished it in one day
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- Hiram Walter
- 05-24-20
Powerful Book
Sellers, my name sake, wrote an artful piece that had me cheering, crying, and hopeful the entire read. thank you for sharing
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- caw747
- 05-22-20
A Great American Story.
This is a great historical biography. The book is well written and read by the author. The story is rich with southern civil rights history, family and personal history and political ties that speak to current events. The narrative is warm, touching and relatable and I think has a message to all engaged citizens which explains the title. Very easy to listen to and in time for the upcoming election
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- Lillian J.
- 06-16-20
Bakari Sellers makes me hopeful for his generation
As a member of Gen X, I feel proud of the passed on Torch!!! Sharing.
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- Tony
- 04-12-22
Brilliant!
Harsh realities eloquently articulated…
Bakari has an uncanny talent for communicating the painful stuff whilst keeping it real
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My Vanishing Country \ Mi país se desvanece (Spanish Edition)
- Memorias
- By: Bakari Sellers
- Narrated by: Daniel Cubillo
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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En estas memorias, el analista político y representante de estado más joven de Carolina del Sur ahonda sobre las vidas del olvidado sur negro.
By: Bakari Sellers
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Who Are Your People?
- By: Bakari Sellers
- Narrated by: Bakari Sellers
- Length: 3 mins
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In the vein of I Am Enough and Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, this powerful book is a joyful recognition of the people and places that help define young readers and adults alike.
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Oh Mr. Sellersexcellent
- By Alison Schuback on 01-24-23
By: Bakari Sellers
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No Name in the Street
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 5 hrs
- Unabridged
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This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent '60s and early '70s displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works. In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early consciousness, the later events that scored his heart with pain - the murders of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, his sojourns in Europe and in Hollywood, and his return to the American South to confront a violent America face-to-face.
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A strange and terrible vehicle
- By Darwin8u on 02-07-20
By: James Baldwin
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No Ashes in the Fire
- By: Darnell L Moore
- Narrated by: Darnell L Moore
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir. When Darnell Moore was 14, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. He escaped, but just barely. It wasn't the last time he would face death. Three decades later, Moore is an award-winning writer, a leading Black Lives Matter activist, and an advocate for justice and liberation. In No Ashes in the Fire, he shares the journey taken by that scared, bullied teenager who not only survived, but found his calling.
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Powerful & Brilliant
- By Stephanie J on 06-23-18
By: Darnell L Moore
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Overground Railroad
- The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
- By: Candacy Taylor
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for Black motorists.
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Narrator destroyed this for me! read it instead
- By purpleprose on 10-16-22
By: Candacy Taylor
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You Can't Touch My Hair
- And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
- By: Phoebe Robinson, Jessica Williams - foreword
- Narrated by: Phoebe Robinson, John Hodgman
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Being a black woman in America means contending with old prejudices and fresh absurdities every day. Comedian Phoebe Robinson has experienced her fair share over the years: She's been unceremoniously relegated to the role of "the black friend", as if she is somehow the authority on all things racial; she's been questioned about her love of U2 and Billy Joel ("isn't that...white people music?"); she's been called "uppity" for having an opinion in the workplace; and yes, people do ask her whether they can touch her hair all. The. Time.
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Phoebe, You Rock
- By Kate on 12-02-16
By: Phoebe Robinson, and others
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My Vanishing Country \ Mi país se desvanece (Spanish Edition)
- Memorias
- By: Bakari Sellers
- Narrated by: Daniel Cubillo
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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En estas memorias, el analista político y representante de estado más joven de Carolina del Sur ahonda sobre las vidas del olvidado sur negro.
By: Bakari Sellers
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Dear America
- Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
- By: Jose Antonio Vargas
- Narrated by: Jose Antonio Vargas
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “[T]he most famous undocumented immigrant in America”, tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms.
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Varga's story needs to be read in schools!
- By V R. Jasso on 10-12-18
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Black Man in a White Coat
- A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
- By: Damon Tweedy
- Narrated by: Corey Allen
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with racial identity, bias, and the unique health problems of Black Americans. When Damon Tweedy first enters the halls of Duke University Medical School on a full scholarship, he envisions a bright future where his segregated, working-class background will become largely irrelevant. Instead he finds that he has joined a new world where race is front and center.
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Absolutely eye opening!
- By Kelene on 02-23-16
By: Damon Tweedy
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My Remarkable Journey
- A Memoir
- By: Katherine Johnson, Joylette Hylick, Katherine Moore
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times best seller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, including what it took to work at NASA, help land the first man on the moon, and live through a century of turmoil and change.
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Amazing Woman, Interesting Life
- By Grace on 08-20-21
By: Katherine Johnson, and others
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Heartland
- A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
- By: Sarah Smarsh
- Narrated by: Sarah Smarsh
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country’s changing economic policies solidified her family’s place among the working poor. By telling the story of her life and the lives of the people she loves, Smarsh challenges us to look more closely at the class divide in our country and examine the myths about people thought to be less because they earn less.
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My favorite memoir of 2018
- By NMwritergal on 11-25-18
By: Sarah Smarsh
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Barracoon
- The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
- By: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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