Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kinohi Nishikawa’s “Street Players”
24 Apr 2019
The question is not Who stole Black pulp fiction, but Who owned and profited from it. “Social movement and popular culture are not the same thing.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: John Lowney’s”Jazz Internationalism”
17 Apr 2019
Black writers have underscored the possibilities and challenges of black internationalism through their innovative adaptations of black music.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Brian Roberts’“Blackface Nation”
17 Apr 2019
What made the ‘American’ different from the ‘Englishman’ was a celebration of vulgar thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sylvanna Falcón’s “Power Interrupted”
10 Apr 2019
A small group of committed antiracist feminist activists changed the global discourse about racism and antiracism.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Shane Vogel’s “Stolen Time”
10 Apr 2019
The 1950s calypso craze provided black performers with new occasions to intervene in the public sphere as well as new creative and financial opportunities.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ruma Chopra’s “Almost Home”
03 Apr 2019
This is a story about the ways in which the Maroons positioned themselves within a powerful and expanding empire.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Paul Steinbeck’s “Message to Our Folks”
03 Apr 2019
The members of the Art Ensemble represented “five different articulations of Africanity.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Gary Dorrien’s“Breaking White Supremacy”
27 Mar 2019
King’s commitment to Christian socialism helped him hold together disparate groups that had no history of working together.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Margaret Stevens’s “Red International and Black Caribbean”
27 Mar 2019
Some of the best leaders of black working class people were communist or worked alongside communists.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tamura Lomax’s “Jezebel Unhinged”
20 Mar 2019
The jezebel discourse is reproduced in and circulated between the Black Church and black popular culture, making each a site of antiblack and sexist stereotypic cultivation and pornotropic gazing.