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Bread and Circus — Airea D. Matthews

Bread and Circus

Airea D. Matthews

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

The Unfolding An Invitation to Come Home to Yourself — Arielle Estoria

The Unfolding An Invitation to Come Home to Yourself

Arielle Estoria

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

Black Queer Hoe — Britteney Black Rose Kapri

Black Queer Hoe

Britteney Black Rose Kapri

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

Mr. and Mrs. Prince How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend — Gretchen Gerzina

Mr. and Mrs. Prince How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend

Gretchen Gerzina

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

Hawk — Vivian Ayers

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

No Sweet Without Brine Poems — Cynthia Manick

No Sweet Without Brine Poems

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

Chasing Utopia A Hybrid — Nikki Giovanni

Chasing Utopia A Hybrid

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

Being Brought from Africa to America – The Best of Phillis Wheatley — Phillis Wheatley

Being Brought from Africa to America – The Best of Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

Out of Order — Alexis Sears

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland — DaMaris B. Hill

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland

DaMaris B. Hill

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

When Angels Speak of Love — bell hooks

When Angels Speak of Love

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

Spontaneous Particulars The Telepathy of Archives — Susan Howe

Spontaneous Particulars The Telepathy of Archives

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

Signed Kiaya — Nikiaya Brandon

Nikiaya Brandon

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

And Still I Rise A Book of Poems — Maya Angelou

And Still I Rise A Book of Poems

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

Eternity Selected Poems — Tracy K. Smith

Eternity Selected Poems

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

Wicked Enchantment Selected Poems — Wanda Coleman

Wicked Enchantment Selected Poems

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

Tears for Water Poetry & Lyrics — Alicia Keys

Tears for Water Poetry & Lyrics

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

Phases Poems — Tramaine Suubi

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

Litany of a Foreign Wife Poems — Nnane Ntube

Litany of a Foreign Wife Poems

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

Black Girl, Call Home — Jasmine Mans

Black Girl, Call Home

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

Running to Stand Still — Kimberly Reyes

Running to Stand Still

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

The Racial Imaginary Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind — Claudia Rankine

The Racial Imaginary Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind

Claudia Rankine

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

Call Us What We Carry Poems — Amanda Gorman

Call Us What We Carry Poems

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

Poems Maya Angelou — Maya Angelou

Poems Maya Angelou

Themes: Women Authors • African American & Black • American

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for Thick with Trouble by Amber McBride — spanning Women Authors, African American & Black, American and featuring authors such as Airea D. Matthews, Arielle Estoria, Britteney Black Rose Kapri, Gretchen Gerzina, and others.

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