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cover of The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois in a side by side series

The Root of Passing in The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s sweeping epic engages with a richness of Black life and history far beyond her characters’ proximity to whiteness alone. By tracing the African American experience back to its roots, she has created a canon-worthy work that exposes the complexity of color and the deep wounds passing superficially attempts to address.