The Love Songs of WEB Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers review – desires of the downtrodden

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The Love Songs of WEB Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers review – desires of the downtrodden

The poet’s debut novel effortlessly evokes the dilemmas of African Americans as they struggle for advancementThe author Zora Neale Hurston once joked: “I am the only negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s side was not an Indian chief.” In part, Hurston was alluding to the embarrassment some African Americans felt about their “debased” African lineage, a notion that lies at the core of the poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s ambi…