BAR Book Forum

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tracy Fessenden’s “Religion Around Billie Holiday”
01 Aug 2018
“Billie Holiday reminds us to look unflinchingly at the face of power, to call things by their true names.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Fred Moten’s “consent not to be a single being”
25 Jul 2018
“We have lived, and continue to live, in a climate that doesn’t support life.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Deirdre Cooper Owens’ “Medical Bondage”
04 Jul 2018
“American gynecology and obstetrics is intimately bound to American slavery.”
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.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Anne Garland Mahler’s "From the Tricontinental to the Global South"
27 Jun 2018
“Tricontinentalism was deeply rooted in a long tradition of black internationalist thought.”
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.”