Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Peter James Hudson’s “Bankers and Empire”
08 Aug 2018
“There can be no ‘black internationalism’ without an attack on imperialism and finance capitalism.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sylvia Chan-Malik’s “Being Muslim”
01 Aug 2018
“The book shows how deeply intertwined logics of anti-Muslim racism are with those of anti-Blackness.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tracy Fessenden’s “Religion Around Billie Holiday”
01 Aug 2018
“Billie Holiday reminds us to look unflinchingly at the face of power, to call things by their true names.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Fred Moten’s “consent not to be a single being”
25 Jul 2018
“We have lived, and continue to live, in a climate that doesn’t support life.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jeremy Kuzmarov’s and John Marciano’s “The Russians are Coming, Again”
18 Jul 2018
“The American people have been constantly manipulated and made to fear the Russian threat when it is the United States that has been the aggressive power.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Dan Kovalik’s “The Plot to Scapegoat Russia" and "The Plot to Attack Iran”
18 Jul 2018
“I believe that Americans are the most uninformed, misinformed and ideologized people on the planet.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ari Heinrich’s “Chinese Surplus”
11 Jul 2018
“Cutting-edge biomedical technology actually perpetuates certain inequalities.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Vince Schleitwiler’s “Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific”
11 Jul 2018
“The constraints empire placed on its racial contradictions are falling away.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Deirdre Cooper Owens’ “Medical Bondage”
04 Jul 2018
“American gynecology and obstetrics is intimately bound to American slavery.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Britt Rusert’s “Fugitive Science”
04 Jul 2018
“We are seeing the reemergence of a white supremacist engagement with science that has always existed, but is finding more traction within the public sphere and media.”