Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Eric Pritchard’s “Fashioning Lives”
18 Dec 2019
Through writing, many Black queer people are creating the world we all deserve to live in.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Peter Gelderloos’s “Worshiping Power”
18 Dec 2019
The anarchist author maintains that the only thing the state “is superior at is conquest.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adeline Masquelier’s “Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger”
11 Dec 2019
Young men in Niger meet at fadas to figure out what to do with their lives under uncaring global capitalism.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Leah Vernon’s “Unashamed”
04 Dec 2019
A coming of age story of a Black Muslim girl living in America during trying social and political times.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nolan Cabrera’s “White Guys on Campus”
04 Dec 2019
Cabrera’s book directly pushes against the notion that White racism only exists within “ignorant” White people or “rednecks” and “hillbillies.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Gary Phillip’s “The Be-Bop Barbarians”
27 Nov 2019
This book looks at the collision of race and class in a repressive time, in this case the late 1950s.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nicholas Jones’s “Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain”
20 Nov 2019
“Behaving, talking, and sounding too black”—will never be separate from larger issues and questions of language and race.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Zachary Casey’s A Pedagogy of “Anticapitalist Antiracism”
20 Nov 2019
Many antiracist practices in schools are almost immediately coopted, privatized, and rendered ineffective.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Walter Mignolo and Catherine Walsh’s “On Decoloniality”
13 Nov 2019
The dominant conceptions and ideals of Western civilization aim to violate, destroy, and eliminate all that obstructs and impedes its path.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Keguro Macharia’s “Frottage”
06 Nov 2019
Instead of succumbing to xenophobia and nativism, as with anti-Somali sentiment in Kenya or ADOS in the US, we need to pursue freedom in ways that speak to our differences.