Jeffers, Honoree Fanonne <br/><br/>
The love songs of W.E.B. Du Bois :  a novel / 
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers 
 - London  4th Estate  2021 
 - 797 . 
<br/><br/> 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.<br/><br/>From an early age, Ailey fights a battle to feel like she belongs, made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma, as well as the whispers of women – her mother, her sister and a maternal line reaching back two centuries – that urge her to succeed in their stead.<br/><br/>Ailey decides to embark on a journey through her family's past, uncovering the shocking tales of generations of ancestors – Indigenous, Black, and white – in the deep South. In doing so she 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.<br/><br/>Sweeping, compulsive and deeply moving, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is set to be one of the most talked-about books of the year. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780008516482 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Domestic fiction<br/>Cultural property<br/>Georgia<br/>African American families<br/>African American women<br/>African Americans--Race identity<br/>Identity (Psychology)
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>Fiction JEF-H