Overview
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 battle for belonging that's made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma. To come to terms with her own identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family's past. In doing so 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.
- | Author: Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
- | Publisher: Harper
- | Publication Date: August 24, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 816 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 006294293X
- | ISBN-13: 9780062942937
