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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kristen R. Ghodsee’s “Second World, Second Sex”
17 Jun 2020
Socialist ideas about the inextricable links between class, race, and gender predate the concept of intersectionality. “In 1975, women from Asia, Africa, and Latin America argued that you could not separate ‘women’s issues’ from issues of racism, colonialism, and neo-colonialism.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Samantha N. Sheppard’s “Sporting Blackness”
17 Jun 2020
Black memory is a muscle trained, flexed, and disciplined by colonialism, enslavement, and racial terror, as well as collective Black struggle. “Black sporting bodies can representationally and formally disrupt and protest their stereotypical depictions and conservative generic scripts.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
17 Jun 2020
This week colonial genocides, white supremacy, and the Democratic Party’s role were on your minds. We share your letters for “BAR Book Forum: Elizabeth R.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
Say Its Name: Genocide!
17 Jun 2020
Unless we identify genocide as the common underpinning to all of the brutality directed against Black people in the US, we are talking about the wrong thing. “Hit and run driving is becoming the new go anywhere lynching.”
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Building Power to Win is the Revolutionary Approach to Bourgeois Electoralism”
17 Jun 2020
We must make clear that it is imperialism that degrades and destroys the earth, makes water a commodity, food a luxury, education an impossibility, and health care a distant dream. “The struggle is for power not reform.” The following is excerpted from a presentation by Ajamu Baraka to a national…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
The State (For Cam and B) and Mo’ Foul Play
17 Jun 2020
Papa’s proud of you, handsome Grandsons, for hand-lettered signs, for taking to the streets during your generation’s 10 days that shook the world! I’m proud of your militant mugs, masked, concealing righteous anger and dangerous emotional Literacy your Mom gifted you…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Rebellion Against Police Repression Must Guard Against ALL Enemies, Whether Red, Blue, or Green
17 Jun 2020
The terrain of struggle will need to expand for the movement to avoid a Democratic Party-induced slumber. “The movement’s enemies in blue not only include the cops but also the entire Democratic Party.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Churchill, Columbus and Leopold Fall Down
17 Jun 2020
Millions of white people glorify mass murderers because their sense of identity and place in society is deeply tied to white supremacy. “It is important to name and shame the mass murderers.”
Ron Wilkins
To Observe and Protect: Community Alert Patrol and the Fight Against Police Terror in the 1960s
17 Jun 2020
The Black Panther Party modeled their policing initiatives after Black citizens’ patrols in Los Angeles. “The problem of police terror has only worsened.in the 54 years since CAP’s existence.”
Rachel R. Hardeman, Ph.D., M.P.H., Eduardo M. Medina, M.D., M.P.H., Rhea W. Boyd, M.D., M.P.H.
Stolen Breaths
17 Jun 2020
Demonstrators are laying bare the deep pain that persists for black people fighting to live under the crushing weight of injustice that has long been at our necks. “Too many ‘leaders wonder how we got here and what we can do to move forward, as if the answers have not been ever-present.” In…