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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.
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
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- Released
- 2021
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 464
- ISBN10
- 006294293X
- ISBN13
- 9780062942937
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Family, USA, Violence, Race, Racism, Drugs, Native Americans, Abuse, Sisters, African American Literature, American South, Slaves, Black People
- Rating
- 4.5 out of 5
- Description
- 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.