Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Alaí Reyes-Santos’ “Our Caribbean Kin”
27 Jun 2018
“One must always be mindful of the kinship models one mobilizes to get people together in a quest for justice.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Anne Garland Mahler’s "From the Tricontinental to the Global South"
27 Jun 2018
“Tricontinentalism was deeply rooted in a long tradition of black internationalist thought.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Stephen Gowans’ “Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea's Struggle for Freedom”
20 Jun 2018
“The leader of every state that has refused to submit to US political and economic domination is defamed as a monster.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Shane Maddock’s “Nuclear Apartheid”
20 Jun 2018
“Ultimately, the surest way to reduce the risk of nuclear war is to eliminate nuclear weapons.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson’s As Black as Resistance
12 Jun 2018
“Siccing law enforcement on Black people could arguably be understood as attempted murder.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kali Nicole Gross’s Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso
12 Jun 2018
“I hope readers consider whether we need to reassess Black women’s relationship to violence.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Imani Perry’s May We Forever Stand
06 Jun 2018
“We often reduce Black politics to integrationism vs nationalism, but freedom dreams have always been more robust and complex.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Bianca Williams’ The Pursuit of Happiness
06 Jun 2018
“It is crucial for us to understand that what we feel as Black peoples provides useful data that can be turned into critical analysis.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nell Painter’s Old in Art School
30 May 2018
“The ideology I’d like to dismantle makes every black person the same as every other black person, assumed to be a man or woman under the age of sixty-five.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sami Schalk’s Bodyminds Reimagined
30 May 2018
“Concepts of able-mindedness are historically based within gender and racial norms of masculinity and whiteness—with damaging and deadly results for black people.”