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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
Abolishing the Family Policing System: An Interview with Joyce McMillan
06 Jul 2022
Roberto Sirvent speaks to Joyce McMillan, an advocate for parental rights in the family policing system. So called "child welfare" disproportionately impacts and harms Black people.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Emilio Amideo’s Book, “Queer Tidalectics”
06 Jul 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Emilio Amideo. Amideo is a research fellow in English language and translation at…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Robtel Neajai Pailey’s “Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa”
29 Jun 2022
This week’s featured author is Robtel Neajai Pailey. Pailey is Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her book is…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Shanté Paradigm Smalls’s “Hip Hop Heresies”
22 Jun 2022
This week’s featured author is Shanté Paradigm Smalls. Smalls is Associate Professor of Black Studies in the Department of English and Faculty in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at St. John’s…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Habiba Ibrahim’s “Black Age”
15 Jun 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Habiba Ibrahim. Ibrahim is Associate Professor of English at the University of…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Akinyele Umoja
08 Jun 2022
This week’s featured scholar is Akinyele Umoja. Umoja is Professor of Africana Studies at Georgia State University. His article is “Maroon: Kuwasi Balagoon and the Evolution of Revolutionary New…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Omedi Ochieng’s “Groundwork for the Practice of the Good Life”
25 May 2022
This week’s featured author is Omedi Ochieng. Ochieng is Associate Professor in Black Studies and in the Department of Communication at Denison University. His book is Groundwork for the Practice of…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nick Nesbitt’s Book, “The Price of Slavery”
18 May 2022
This week’s featured author is Nick Nesbitt. Nesbitt is Professor of French and Italian at Princeton University. His book is The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Gao Yunxiang’s “Arise Africa! Roar China!”
11 May 2022
This week’s featured author is Gao Yunxiang. Gao Yunxiang is Professor of History at Ryerson University. Her book is Arise, Africa! Roar, China!: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Adam Bledsoe and Willie Wright
04 May 2022
This week’s featured scholars are Adam Bledsoe and Willie Wright. Bledsoe is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota. Wright is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida.…