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cristalyne 's review for:
My Vanishing Country: A Memoir
by Bakari Sellers
I read this book because it was compared to Hillbilly Elegy (a book I loath), only it's supposed to be about "America’s forgotten black working-class men and women" in the South, so I thought it would be a rebuttal in a way. It is not. It's more of a birds-eye view of Bakari Sellers' life and key moments in history, but I feel like it lacks a core argument like J.D. Vance's book had--that the problem with poor southern whites is a matter of culture (a poorly recycled theory). If the book had been pitched differently, then I might have enjoyed it more. Then again, if I had known that a significant portion of the book is dedicated to him running for office, I might not have read it at all.