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BAR Book Forum: Short Meditations on Christina Sharpe’s “In the Wake”
12 May 2021
There was no way to make light of this daunting book and its effects on me, no matter how much I thought I knew it.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Stefanie K. Dunning’s “Black to Nature”
12 May 2021
The author explores various social, political, and cultural sites that explore and highlight the Black pastoral experience.
Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent
“Anti-Blackness, Bioethics, and Public Health: 200 Introductory Resources for Community Study”
29 Apr 2021
Writers, artists, community organizers and scholars have all contributed their analysis of the resource documents listed, below, and how they might be useful in assessing anti-Black structures arou
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Davarian Baldwin’s “In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower”
29 Apr 2021
Universities have become today’s companies and our cities their company towns.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Alaina E. Roberts’ “I’ve Been Here All the While”
21 Apr 2021
Five Indian nations brought their Black slaves on the Trail of Tears and it was Black labor that helped them rebuild.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kathryn Yusoff’s “A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None”
21 Apr 2021
Climate change is materialized through a racialized praxis, and those materialities of race produce racialized climates of survival.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Walter Johnson’s “The Broken Heart of America”
15 Apr 2021
The Black future is already unfolding under your feet, and the narrow possibility that you might grab ahold of that leading edge of the asphalt and turn it in a different direction.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tracey L. Walters’ “Not Your Mother’s Mammy”
15 Apr 2021
The assumption is these women are uneducated or without skills beyond cleaning or caring for children and adults.
Troizel Carr
BAR Book Forum: Short Meditations on Christina Sharpe’s “In the Wake”
07 Apr 2021
Being in the wake, in the afterlives of slavery…is to be caught in the reverberating aftermath of a long disaster, a durational dance with danger, with terror.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Amandla Thomas-Johnson’s “Becoming Kwame Ture”
07 Apr 2021
The Stokely Carmichael of the 60s continued to politically and ideologically evolve while in Africa where he adopts the names of his political mentors Sekou Toure and Kwame Nkrumah.