| Black Agenda Report

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Michael Rothberg’s “The Implicated Subject”
26 May 2021
Most people contribute to injustice not as direct perpetrators but as indirect participants who enable, perpetuate, benefit from, and inherit histories of violence and contemporary systems of explo
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Yarden Katz’s Book “Artificial Whiteness”
21 Oct 2020
The models of the human “self” offered within AI commit to white male superiority and individualism.
Nada Mustafa Ali
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
16 Sep 2020
Students of all ages can share the experiences of women from the slum margins of Nairobi and young female shapeshifters at a Detroit homeless shelter.
Ashlie Sandoval
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
19 Feb 2020
An educator helps students navigate books that reveal Blackness as historicity, slavery as both obscured and ever-present, and the violence of race.
Alex Alston
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
04 Feb 2020
Black studies is a conceptual movement that is trying to catch up to it’s more sensual and less formal cousin, black music.
Erica Caines
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
08 Jan 2020
Black adults must not allow “Hollywood to fill in the blanks” in our children’s understanding of Black history.
Alaina Morgan
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
08 Jan 2020
The question of where to search for the histories of Black people in the diaspora, is of paramount importance. “Freedom and unfreedom are not binaries.”
Nana Osei-Opare
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
11 Dec 2019
This teacher has Black liberation on the menu: from Mau Mau and African communists, to Biko, Nkrumah and Fanon.
Tiana Reid
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
27 Nov 2019
For me, the most generative way to read, the most thorough, is to teach a text, to read in communion with others.
Boké Saisi
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
13 Nov 2019
Black class relations explicated, Moynihan debunked, slave life explored, prison abolition made conceivable – all this is teachable.