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Staying On Code
2023 Reading List

Want to know what we'll be reading throughout 2023? Here's the list! Books are linked to www.resistbooksellers.com, the official (and Black-owned!) bookstore for Staying On Code. So you don't even have to look them up! See how easy I made it for you? ;-) All links open in a new browser window. 


MONTHBOOK ONEBOOK TWO
JanuaryAllow Me to RetortThe Color of Law
FebruaryAmerican SirensThe Black Jacobins
MarchWhen Affirmative Action Was WhiteJournalism and Jim Crow
April

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America : Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society

Black Fortunes: the Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires

MayBuffalo Soldiers in AlaskaThe Tuskegee Airmen: An Illustrated History – 1939-1949 with a Comprehensive Chronology of Missions and Events
JuneBlack Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great OutdoorsEating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America
JulyFreedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom MovementBlack Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists
August

The Double V: How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America’s Military

Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

September

Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States

The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America

October 

CAPITOL MEN: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen

African American Philosophers and Philosophy: An Introduction to the History, Concepts and Contemporary Issues

November

The U.S. Child Support System and The Black Family: How the System Destroys Black Families, Criminalizes Black Men, and Sets Black Children Up for Failure

What the Children Told Us: The Untold Story of the Famous "Doll Test" and the Black Psychologists Who Changed the World

December

White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better

The New Black: What Has Changed--and What Has Not--with Race in America