02171cam a2200337 4500 759790190 TxAuBib 20210707120000.0 210305s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062942937 hbk. $28.99 006294293X hbk. $28.99 (OCoLC)1242984037 WIQ eng rda WIQ YDX BDX AZZPT CNNWP HQD OCLCO OCLCF OCLCQ OCO OCLCO TxGR TxAuBib Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne, 1967-, author. The love songs of W.E.B. Du Bois [Book] : a novel / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. First edition. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] xiv, 797 pages ; 24 cm. To come to terms with who she is and what she wants, Ailey, the daughter of an accomplished doctor and a strict schoolteacher, embarks on a journey through her family's past, helping her embrace her full heritage, which is the story of the Black experience in itself. 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. Print run 75,000. 20210707. African American women Fiction. African American families Georgia Fiction. African American families Georgia History Fiction. Identity (Psychology) Fiction. African Americans Race identity Fiction. Cloth or Hardcover. African American & Black - Women. Cultural property. RV8