Every day of February 2021, we published a daily book recommendation on social media from Black members of our Oak Bluffs community for Black History Month. Here are all the books selected throughout the month:
The Wedding
The Catcher in the Rye
I Can Make You Feel Good by Tyler Mitchell
Notes From A Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi
Stony the Road – Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Thank you, Dr. Ophelia!
Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker, PhD (2017)
Black is a Rainbow Color – Angela Joy – Illustrator/artist Ekua
Beneath the Tamarind Tree by Isha Sesay
I, too, am America
Kindred
Bridging the Divide : My Life / Edward W. Brooke
Standing at the Scratch Line
Who is Jim Hines? by Jean Alicia Elster
The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Golden 13: How Black Men Won the Right to Wear Navy Gold by Dan C.Goldberg
The Place My Heart calls Home Author: Jocelyn Coleman Walton
Dr. James B. Haile III THE BUCK THE BLACK AND THE EXISTENTIAL HERO, Refiguring the Black Male Literary Canon 1850-Present
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
I Know Why the Caged Birds Sings – Maya Angelou
The Book of Harlan by Bernice McFadden
Black Fortunes by Shomari Wills
The Vineyard We Knew by Kenneth Parham
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
THE NEW JIM CROW by Michelle Alexander
