The love songs of W.E.B. Du Bois :
Jeffers, Honor�ee Fanonne, 1967-
The love songs of W.E.B. Du Bois : a novel / Honor�ee Fanonne Jeffers. - First edition. - xiv, 797 pages ; 24 cm
The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about what he called "Double Consciousness," a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. From an early age, Ailey fights a battle for belonging that's made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma. To come to terms with her own identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family's past. In doing so Ailey must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of oppression and resistance, bondage and independence, cruelty and resilience that is the story - and the song - of America itself.
9780062942937 006294293X
African American women--Fiction
African American families--Georgia--Fiction.
African American families--History--Georgia--Fiction.
Identity (Psychology)--Fiction
African Americans--Race identity--Fiction.
Historical fiction
Novels
PS3560.E365 / L68 2021
813/.54
The love songs of W.E.B. Du Bois : a novel / Honor�ee Fanonne Jeffers. - First edition. - xiv, 797 pages ; 24 cm
The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about what he called "Double Consciousness," a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. From an early age, Ailey fights a battle for belonging that's made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma. To come to terms with her own identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family's past. In doing so Ailey must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of oppression and resistance, bondage and independence, cruelty and resilience that is the story - and the song - of America itself.
9780062942937 006294293X
African American women--Fiction
African American families--Georgia--Fiction.
African American families--History--Georgia--Fiction.
Identity (Psychology)--Fiction
African Americans--Race identity--Fiction.
Historical fiction
Novels
PS3560.E365 / L68 2021
813/.54