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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor

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  • BAR Book Forum: Therí Pickens’s “Black Madness :: Mad Blackness”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Therí Pickens’s “Black Madness :: Mad Blackness”
    12 Jun 2019
    This book is dedicated to the Black mad and the mad Black everywhere.
  • BAR Book Forum: Jennifer Nash’s “Black Feminism Reimagined”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Jennifer Nash’s “Black Feminism Reimagined”
    05 Jun 2019
    Black women are still regularly ignored by the very political projects that celebrate us.
  • BAR Book Forum: Maryann Erigha’s “Hollywood Jim Crow”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Maryann Erigha’s “Hollywood Jim Crow”
    29 May 2019
    White supremacy in Hollywood operates on the premise that Black movies, directors, and stars are “unbankable”—or not profitable.
  • BAR Book Forum: Howard Waitzkin’s “Health Care Under the Knife”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Howard Waitzkin’s “Health Care Under the Knife”
    29 May 2019
    As global capitalism slowly withers, a non-exploitative health care system has entered the realm of the possible.
  • BAR Book Forum: Noura Erakat’s “Justice for Some”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Noura Erakat’s “Justice for Some”
    22 May 2019
    Sometimes what passes for international law can lead to unfair outcomes, as the mandate that facilitated the creation of Israel on Palestinian land.
  • BAR Book Forum: Greg Shupak’s “The Wrong Story”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Greg Shupak’s “The Wrong Story”
    22 May 2019
    American maneuvers in the Middle East have little to do with culture or religion and everything to do with capitalism.
  • BAR Book Forum: Renisa Mawani’s “Across Oceans of Law”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Renisa Mawani’s “Across Oceans of Law”
    15 May 2019
    The mass deaths along the Mediterranean are part of a much longer colonial history of maritime security aimed at protecting the freedom of (European) mobility.  
  • BAR Book Forum: Lilian Calles Barger’s “The World Come of Age”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Lilian Calles Barger’s “The World Come of Age”
    08 May 2019
    Any Christian theology worth holding has to be engaged with the need for the liberation of the oppressed.
  • Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Bénédicte Boisseron’s “Afro-Dog”
    01 May 2019
    Racialization in this country often goes through a disguised process of animalization.
  • BAR Book Forum: David Correia and Tyler Wall’s“Police: A Field Guide”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: David Correia and Tyler Wall’s“Police: A Field Guide”
    24 Apr 2019
    “The police” is a regime of state violence that is designed to have freedom from the “rule of law.”
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