Education And Public Education

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.”
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.”
Bryan K. Bullock
Modern Black Codes and the Cops That Enforce Them
27 Jun 2018
“The police respond as if the black person is guilty of whatever transgression the white person said they committed.”
Don Fitz
When Cuban Polyclinics Were Born
27 Jun 2018
“Cuba has created a model for poor countries that forever changed medicine.”
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.”
Ken Peeples
US Criminal Justice: Why the Two-Tiered Justice System is Really THREE-Tiered
20 Jun 2018
“Mass incarceration and selective enforcement of laws is a conscious decisionin this country.”
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.”
Tanvi Misra
Traffic Stops: Pretexts for Racial Repression
12 Jun 2018
“Police have used the entire vehicle code as an excuse to use their discretion to pull people over who might appear suspicious to them for whatever reason.”
William C. Anderson
The Case for Delegitimizing the Police
12 Jun 2018
“Once you come to understand the institution’s ties to white supremacy, it becomes clear the system is toxic and cannot be fixed.”