Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Roderick Ferguson’s “One-Dimensional Queer”
20 Feb 2019
Gay liberation didn’t originate as a single-issue movement, and must confront neoliberalism and gentrification as well as anti-queer violence.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kia Caldwell’s “Health Equity in Brazil”
13 Feb 2019
Policies and laws promoting equity and equality of any type are under severe attack now in Brazil.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kristian Williams’s “Our Enemies in Blue”
13 Feb 2019
Throughout their history the police have reliably served the interests of white supremacy.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Msia Clark’s “Hip-Hop in Africa”
06 Feb 2019
The author employs Frantz Fanon’s discussion of protest culture as a lens of analysis of hip-hop in Africa.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Katie Grimes’s “Fugitive Saints”
06 Feb 2019
The Catholic Church was deeply involved in legitimizing and regulating slavery – a very unsaintly legacy.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
“BAR Book Forum: Tisa Wenger’s Religious Freedom”
30 Jan 2019
“Religious freedom” has always been partial, aspirational, and constituted by the systems of power that shape the society as a whole.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
“BAR Book Forum: Tavia Nyong’o’s Afro-Fabulations”
30 Jan 2019
Nyong’o’s book seeks to “articulate the power of the critical and creative fabulation” of black social life.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Amber Musser’s “Sensual Excess”
23 Jan 2019
The author examines the framing power of sexuality as an ideology of respectability and control.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Darius Bost’s “Evidence of Being”
23 Jan 2019
With the face of AIDS having changed from white gay men to non-whites, it is wise to tap into an earlier radical tradition.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Harri Englund’s’ “Gogo Breeze”
16 Jan 2019
In rural Zambia, an elder named Gogo Breeze investigates his listeners’ grievances and renders public service at a small privately-owned radio station.