Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adam Elliott-Cooper’s “Black Resistance to British Policing”
08 Jul 2021
Historically, most of Britain’s policing hasn’t taken place on the British mainland – it has taken place in its colonies.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Monika Gosin’s “The Racial Politics of Division”
01 Jul 2021
Miami serves as a heightened case to explore such contradictions as I look closely at tensions between African Americans, white Cubans, and Black Cubans.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jerrilyn McGregory’s “One Grand Noise”
16 Jun 2021
To break cyclical, systemic oppression requires a functionality that rejects reified notions of governance, global capitalism, and accommodation.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Cisco Bradley’s “Universal Tonality”
16 Jun 2021
Jazzman William Parker’s work is a bold art of resistance to capitalism, colonialism, racism, and the runaway train that is our present-day America.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tamika Nunley’s “At the Threshold of Liberty”
02 Jun 2021
How Black women gave the term “liberty” its meaning and expanded the scope of liberty in the nation’s capital during the nineteenth century.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Justin Podur and Joe Emersberger’s “Extraordinary Threat”
02 Jun 2021
Western media outlets, NGOs and powerful governments allied with the United States work in unison to deceive people about foreign policy.
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: Katrinell M. Davis’ “Tainted Tap”
19 May 2021
Activists and community organizers should be inspired by the work of elders engaged in social change.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Rosemarie Freeney Harding and Rachel Elizabeth Harding’s “Remnants”
19 May 2021
There is a need and desire among folks in activist communities for resources of ritual and spiritual grounding.
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.