The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois Material:Hardcover we feel inspired to awaken

we feel inspired to awaken others and to interrupt the systems that perpetuate body shame and oppression against all bodies

Jesse McCarthy’s bracing essays investigate with virtuosic intensity the art

materiality

Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson

chesslike sequence of clues left behind by Wynn

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois Material:Hardcover we feel inspired to awakenMy life had its significance and its only deep significance because it was part of a Problem, W. E. B. Du Bois once wrote. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood these words all too well. Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americansthe revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great grandmother, the descendant of slaves and tenant farmersAiley carries the weight of this Problem on her shoulders. The daughter of an accomplished