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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.
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.
The "White Man" bit is a direct quote. From the reviews it appears that the poems comment on the past, not the present--but obviously I didn't get an advance copy of the book, so I can't answer that and stuck to what the sources said. As for the hook, the article title doesn't count toward the 200 characters.
The first book in the series, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (2000), won the 2001 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. The second book in the Dark Matter series, Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (2004), won the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology in 2005.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: The Age of Phillis: Michael W. McConnell: The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power under the Constitution: William G. Thomas III: A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War: 2022 Bruce A. Ragsdale
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