BAR Book Forum

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kinohi Nishikawa’s “Street Players”
24 Apr 2019
The question is not Who stole Black pulp fiction, but Who owned and profited from it. “Social movement and popular culture are not the same thing.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: John Lowney’s”Jazz Internationalism”
17 Apr 2019
Black writers have underscored the possibilities and challenges of black internationalism through their innovative adaptations of black music.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Brian Roberts’“Blackface Nation”
17 Apr 2019
What made the ‘American’ different from the ‘Englishman’ was a celebration of vulgar thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ruma Chopra’s “Almost Home”
03 Apr 2019
This is a story about the ways in which the Maroons positioned themselves within a powerful and expanding empire.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Paul Steinbeck’s “Message to Our Folks”
03 Apr 2019
The members of the Art Ensemble represented “five different articulations of Africanity.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tamura Lomax’s “Jezebel Unhinged”
20 Mar 2019
The jezebel discourse is reproduced in and circulated between the Black Church and black popular culture, making each a site of antiblack and sexist stereotypic cultivation and pornotropic gazing.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Gary Dorrien’s“The New Abolition”
20 Mar 2019
The founder of Black social gospel fought hard for their right to combine racial justice politics and progressive theology in black church contexts.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Alys Eve Weinbaum’s "The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery”
13 Mar 2019
Slavery is everywhere banned, but the ethos of the slave trade thrives in the baby-buying business.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sharla Fett on “Recaptured Africans”
13 Mar 2019
The illegal slave trade continued right up to the Civil War, requiring US authorities to “recapture” and then expel the human cargo.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Arturo Escobar’s “Designs for the Pluriverse”
06 Mar 2019
Multiple world crises require that humans construct new designs according to very different principles and categories than those of capitalist modernity.