5 must-read feminism books like For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

By: Ntozake Shange

4.28

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In celebration of its highly anticipated Broadway revival, Ntozake Shange’s classic, award-winning …

"What I want and I wanted to be unforgettable."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"i done forgot all abt words aint got no definitions"

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"Through my tears 1 found god in myself and I loved her fiercely"."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

If you liked the feminism plot in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Dutchman & The Slave: Two Plays by LeRoi Jones

By: Amiri Baraka

3.77

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

" Dutchman  is designed to shock—its basic idea, its language and its murderous rage." — New York T… read more

Similar categories in Amiri Baraka's Dutchman & The Slave: Two Plays by LeRoi Jones book and Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

  • classics
  • race
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • african american
  • plays
  • drama
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2. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Toni Cade Bambara , Cherríe L. Moraga

4.52

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

This groundbreaking collection reflects an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color. … read more

Similar categories in Gloria E. Anzaldúa's This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color book and Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • race
  • womens
"This Bridge Called My Back intends to reflect an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color in the U.S."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

"I get angry with those in the women's movement and out of it who deal with class & color as if they defined politics and people."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

"I keep wanting to repeat over and over and over again, the pain and shock of difference, the joy of commonness, the exhilaration of meeting through incredible odds against it."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

"These women don't believe in the sanctity of the marriage bond, the inviolable privacy of the husband-wife unit. The cattiness is mixed with the information, tips. The misery is communal."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

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3. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

By: Audre Lorde

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more

Similar categories in Audre Lorde's Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches book and Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

  • feminism
  • race
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4. The Salt Eaters

By: Toni Cade Bambara

3.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Velma Henry has always been a fighter, but she has fallen on hard times. Exhausted by her political… read more

Similar categories in Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters book and Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

  • classics
  • race
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • african american
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5. Topdog/Underdog

By: Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the w… read more

Similar categories in Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog book and Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

  • theatre
  • fiction
  • african american
  • plays
  • drama
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6. Fefu and Her Friends

By: María Irene Fornés

4.00

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

This is one of the best-loved Off-Off-Broadway plays of recent decades. In the innovative original … read more

Similar categories in María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends book and Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

  • feminism
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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7. Third Life Of Grange Copeland

By: Alice Walker

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alice Walker's first book recounts the lives of three generations growing up in Georgia, where the … read more

Similar categories in Alice Walker's Third Life Of Grange Copeland book and Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

  • classics
  • african american
  • fiction
  • race

8. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé

By: Morgan Parker

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonceuses political and pop-cultural references as a framewo… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Parker's There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé book and Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

9. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

By: August Wilson

3.00

Format: 282 pages,

The time is 1927. The place is a rundown recording studio in Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blue… read more

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10. When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down

By: Joan Morgan

3.60

Format: 137 pages, Hardcover

When Chickenheads Come Home to Roostis a decidedly intimate look into the life of the modern black … read more

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11. Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

By: Sonia Sanchez

4.11

Format: 40 pages,

read more

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12. Fences (The Century Cycle #6)

By: August Wilson

4.23

Format: 690 pages,

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture directed by Denzel Washington, and starring Denzel Washington and… read more

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13. Funnyhouse of a Negro

By: Adrienne Kennedy

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

A Black woman awakens in a phantasmagoric rooming house where she is visited by the Duchess of Haps… read more

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14. Black Women Writers at Work

By: None

3.62

Format: None pages,

The tone and spirit of this splendid volume of conversations with fourteen Black women writers is e… read more

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15. Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery

By: bell hooks

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

When Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recoverywas originally released in 1994, it won criti… read more

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16. The Wolves

By: Sarah DeLappe

4.27

Format: 175 pages, None

Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburba… read more

Similar categories in Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves book and Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

  • theatre
  • fiction
  • womens
  • plays
  • drama
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17. Slave Play

By: Jeremy O. Harris

4.18

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

The old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation--in the breeze, in the cotton fields...and in th… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play book and Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

  • race
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • african american
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

18. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

By: Ntozake Shange

4.28

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In celebration of its highly anticipated Broadway revival, Ntozake Shange’s classic, award-winning … read more

Similar categories in Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf book and Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

  • poetry
  • classics
  • race
  • feminism
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • womens
  • african american
  • plays
  • drama
"What I want and I wanted to be unforgettable."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"i done forgot all abt words aint got no definitions"

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"Through my tears 1 found god in myself and I loved her fiercely"."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Cover of The Door to Tamba: A Short Story by Ishmael Beah

19. The Door to Tamba: A Short Story

By: Ishmael Beah

3.79

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

Award-winning author and human rights activist Ishmael Beah brings us The Door to Tamba, a powerful… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Trouble in Mind (Illuminations) by Alice Childress

20. Trouble in Mind (Illuminations)

By: Alice Childress

4.06

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

“A masterpiece . . . Trouble in Mind still contains astonishing power; it could have been written y… read more

Similar categories in Alice Childress's Trouble in Mind (Illuminations) book and Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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21. Finna

By: Nate Marshall

4.49

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Dynamic poems that celebrate the Black vernacular and engage with the world through the lens of Hip… read more

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  • poetry
  • race
  • african american

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