BAR Book Forum

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Crystal Fleming’s “How to Be Less Stupid About Race”
19 Sep 2018
The racism of the larger society is internalized in us, including those of us who are Black and brown, and must be methodically confronted.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jeanne Theoharis’ “A More Beautiful and Terrible History”
12 Sep 2018
Today’s seekers of social justice need to grapple with what the legacies of past freedom fighters actually demand of us.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Vincent Lloyd’s “Black Natural Law”
12 Sep 2018
Black natural law allows us to identify the ideas of the powers that be, the ideas of the wealthy and the white, and demolish them.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: David Leonard’s “Playing While White”
05 Sep 2018
White athletes, coaches, media, and fans must become accomplices in the struggle for racial justice. “Sports produces and embodies the wages of whiteness.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Howard Bryant’s “The Heritage”
05 Sep 2018
The commercializing of the military and police is central to the selling of sports today, and protesting either has turned the athlete into an enemy of the state.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Macarena Gómez-Barris’ “The Extractive Zone”
22 Aug 2018
The view that we have no future allows those on the planet with privilege to continue with their ideology of disposability.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Julietta Singh’s “Unthinking Mastery”
22 Aug 2018
Singh’s book argues that we have yet to understand critically and dynamically how dangerous all forms and practices of mastery are.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Mehrsa Baradaran’s “The Color of Money”
08 Aug 2018
“’Black capitalism’ was a crucial part of President Nixon’s ‘southern strategy’ and the rhetoric and administration of his program is still intact.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Peter James Hudson’s “Bankers and Empire”
08 Aug 2018
“There can be no ‘black internationalism’ without an attack on imperialism and finance capitalism.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sylvia Chan-Malik’s “Being Muslim”
01 Aug 2018
“The book shows how deeply intertwined logics of anti-Muslim racism are with those of anti-Blackness.”