The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
By : Honor?e Fanonne Jeffers

Book Synopsis :
The 2020 National Book Award?nominated poet makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic?an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing; Sing, Unburied, Sing; and The Water Dancer?that chronicles the journey of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era. The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he called ?Double Consciousness,? a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois?s words all too well. Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americans?the revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great grandmother Pearl, the descendant of enslaved Georgians and tenant farmers?Ailey carries Du Bois?s Problem on her shoulders.Ailey is reared in the north in the City but spends summers in the small Georgia town of Chicasetta, where her
Book Detail :
Author : Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Pages : 816 pages
Publisher : Harper
Language :
ISBN-10 : 006294293X
ISBN-13 : 9780062942937
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