03014cam a2200481 i 4500 651438010 TxAuBib 20230214120000.0 220524t20222021||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062942951 paperback 0062942956 paperback (OCoLC)1319694786 TxAuBib rda Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne, 1967- The love songs of W.E.B. Du Bois : a novel / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. Love songs of WEB Du Bois. Love songs of W.E.B. DuBois. Love songs of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. First Harper Perennial edition. New York : Harper Perennial, 2022. ©2021. xiv, 797 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Oprah's book club 2021"--Cover. "National Book Award longlist"--Cover. "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. 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 mother's family has lived since their ancestors arrived from Africa in Bondage. From an early age, Ailey fights a battle for belonging that's made all the more difficult by hovering trauma, as well as the whispers of women--her mother, Belle, her sister, Lydia, and a maternal line reaching back two centuries--that urge Ailey to succeed in their stead. To come to terms with her own identity, Ailey embarks 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 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"--Back cover. 20230214. African American women Fiction. African American families Georgia Fiction. African American families Georgia History Fiction. Identity (Psychology) Fiction. African Americans Fiction History. African Americans Race identity Fiction. Georgia Fiction. United States Race relations Fiction. Historical fiction. Fictional Work. Fiction. Historical fiction. Novels.