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  • BAR Book Forum: Walidah Imarisha’s “Angels With Dirty Faces“and Vincent Lloyd’s “Religion of the Field Negro”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Walidah Imarisha’s “Angels With Dirty Faces“and Vincent Lloyd’s “Religion of the Field Negro”
    14 Nov 2018
    Our authors explore the evils of incarceration and the promise of Black liberation theology.
  • BAR Book Forum: Tracy Sharpley-Whiting’s “Bricktop’s Paris“ and Magdalena J. Zaborowska’s “Me and My House”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Tracy Sharpley-Whiting’s “Bricktop’s Paris“ and Magdalena J. Zaborowska’s “Me and My House”
    07 Nov 2018
    Our authors explore the Black experience in Europe, past and present, and mine the deep reservoir of wisdom that is James Baldwin.
  • BAR Book Forum: Chandra Bhimull’s “Empire in the Air“and Kyle Mays’ “Hip Hop Beats”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Chandra Bhimull’s “Empire in the Air“and Kyle Mays’ “Hip Hop Beats”
    30 Oct 2018
    An author disentangles transatlantic slavery and transatlantic flight; another writer imagines a world where Black and Indigenous Lives actually matter.
  • BAR Book Forum: Robyn Maynard’s "Policing Black Lives" and Alex Vitale’s "The End of Policing”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Robyn Maynard’s "Policing Black Lives" and Alex Vitale’s "The End of Policing”
    24 Oct 2018
    So-called “community policing” may actually expand police power, and Canadian racial tolerance is a myth.
  • BAR Book Forum: Shadaab Rahemtulla’s “Qur'an of the Oppressed”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Shadaab Rahemtulla’s “Qur'an of the Oppressed”
    17 Oct 2018
    A central aim of liberation theology, in both the Christian and Muslim faiths, is to wrestle theology away from the elites and their privileged pontification
  • BAR Book Forum: Ira Dworkin’s “Congo Love Song”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Ira Dworkin’s “Congo Love Song”
    10 Oct 2018
    Ida B Wells, Malcolm X, Fannie Lou Hamer and others understood the connections between colonialism in Africa and US racial policies.
  • BAR Book Forum: Johnny Van Hove’s “Congoism”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Johnny Van Hove’s “Congoism”
    10 Oct 2018
    The lies that are told about the history and people of Congo are then used to defame Black people everywhere, including the US.
  • BAR Book Forum: Kehinde Andrews’ “Back to Black”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Kehinde Andrews’ “Back to Black”
    03 Oct 2018
    This book shows that the liberal road to reform was a dead end; it is time to commit to revolution.
  • BAR Book Forum: Kathleen Belew’s “Bring the War Home”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Kathleen Belew’s “Bring the War Home”
    03 Oct 2018
    The white power movement drew recruits, many of them women, from every region of the country and all socio-economic sectors of white America.
  • BAR Book Forum: Martha Escobar’s “Captivity Beyond Prisons”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Martha Escobar’s “Captivity Beyond Prisons”
    19 Sep 2018
    Rather than benevolent protector, the state enables and often perpetuates violence against marginalized communities, criminalizing them.
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