![]() ![]() Du Bois, the famous African American intellectual and first Black Harvard graduate. The chapters are accompanied by quotes from W.E.B. Like the content of the book, its composition is also complex. The novel could have come to end at a number of earlier points, but each time it took a surprising turn and it never got boring. It’s been a long time since I’ve got to know a character from a novel as deeply as Ailey. Du Bois is extensive and demanding: The family history of the African American Ailey Pearl Garfield is traced back over several generations and reveals complicated family entanglements that are consequences of settler colonialism and enslavement. ![]() Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ first novel The Love Songs of W.E.B. Diversity trainer, translator and editor of poco.lit. ![]()
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