Category - Fiction / Historical Fiction
Format - Paperback
Condition - Good
Listed - 7 months ago
Views - 86
Wishes - 4
Ships From - Colorado
Est. Publication Date - May 2022
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 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 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 descendent of enslaved Africans and tenant farmers—Ailey carries Du Bois’s problem on her shoulders. Ailey is reared in the North 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. Since she was a child, Ailey has fought a battle for belonging that is made even more difficult by a hovering trauma and the whispers of women—her mother, Belle; her sister, Lydia; and a maternal line reaching back two centuries—who 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. Along the way, 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: A Novel
ISBN: 9780062942951
Publisher 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 ba...
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