Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jasmine Mitchell‘s “Imagining the Mulatta”
09 Sep 2020
The mulatta serves as a strategy of containment of Blackness through logics of racial management.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Vicky Osterweil’s “In Defense of Looting”
02 Sep 2020
Looting and rioting appear as immediately effective tactics in the struggle against whiteness, property and the police.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Liat Ben-Moshe’s “Decarcerating Disability”
26 Aug 2020
Disability studies looks at disability as an identity and culture and not as a deficit to be corrected.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Aliyah Khan’s “Far from Mecca”
19 Aug 2020
Islam should be understood as a religion of enslaved African Muslims and contemporary Black Muslims in the Americas—not simply as a religion of 20th and 21st century Arab, African, and As
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Richard Kent Evans’ “MOVE: An American Religion”
12 Aug 2020
MOVE’s history is a reminder why police and prison abolition remain so urgent.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Michael Sawyer’s “Black Minded”
05 Aug 2020
This book brings the indispensable voice of Malcolm X into our current political and social climate.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Erika Edwards’s “Hiding in Plain Sight”
29 Jul 2020
Anti-blackness manifests as black invisibility in Argentina, a society that was determined to marginalize and discriminate against Black women.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: LaShawn Harris’s “Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners”
22 Jul 2020
Underground labor allowed many women to sustain themselves and the people and religious institutions that they cared about.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law’s “Prison By Any Other Name”
15 Jul 2020
Increased police technology, increased training and “community policing” tend to actually expand instead of decreasing policing.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Christel Temple’s “Black Cultural Mythology”
08 Jul 2020
Black Cultural Mythology imagines a world where Africana cultural memory is an intellectual field with its own agency that does not rely on other cultures’ models to sustain its