| Black Agenda Report

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.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Keisha Blain’s Set the World on Fire
23 May 2018
“It is impossible to understand, or even fully appreciate, how black women have shaped national and global politics today without knowing the larger history.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ M Archive
23 May 2018
“This moment we are living through has infinite possibilities, and not all of those possibilities include the existence of humans.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Spill
16 May 2018
“Spill is about freeing up our imaginations and our bodies for a world we deserve and yet don’t know how to narrate.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ashley Farmer’s Remaking Black Power
16 May 2018
“All of the women in the book envisioned new and expansive visions of black liberation.”