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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Shana Redmond’s “Everything Man”
19 Feb 2020
It takes many voices from a world of disciplines to tell the story of Paul Robeson, the supreme talent ad intellect that the US State attempted to erase from history.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson’s As Black as Resistance
12 Jun 2018
“Siccing law enforcement on Black people could arguably be understood as attempted murder.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kali Nicole Gross’s Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso
12 Jun 2018
“I hope readers consider whether we need to reassess Black women’s relationship to violence.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nell Painter’s Old in Art School
30 May 2018
“The ideology I’d like to dismantle makes every black person the same as every other black person, assumed to be a man or woman under the age of sixty-five.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sami Schalk’s Bodyminds Reimagined
30 May 2018
“Concepts of able-mindedness are historically based within gender and racial norms of masculinity and whiteness—with damaging and deadly results for black people.”