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Jeffers was born in Kokomo, Indiana, and raised Catholic in Durham, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia. [3] [4] Her mother's family is from Eatonton, Georgia; her father's family, she recounted, was "black bourgeois and fair skinned" (her father, Lance Jeffers, was also a poet), and they were not happy when he married a working-class, darker-skinned woman.
“Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois” by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers. Ambitious, sprawling novel by the University of Oklahoma professor. “Black Wall Street” by Hannibal Johnson.
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois is the 2021 debut novel by American poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.It explores the history of an African-American family in the American South, from the time before the American Civil War and slavery, through the Civil Rights Movement, to the present.
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Sister Lilith" Evie Shockley, "separation anxiety" Leone Ross, "Tasting Songs" Nalo Hopkinson, "Greedy Choke Puppy" Amiri Baraka, "Rhythm Travel" Kalamu ya Salaam, "Buddy Bolden" Akua Lezli Hope, "The Becoming" Charles W. Chesnutt, "The Goophered Grapevine" Nisi Shawl, "At the Huts of Ajala" Henry Dumas, "Ark of Bones"
Did you know... that The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, a new novel by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, mixes narrative with "love songs" that illuminate the lives of the protagonist's African, Creek, and Scottish ancestors? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/July.