Media And Culture

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nicholas Jones’s “Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain”
20 Nov 2019
“Behaving, talking, and sounding too black”—will never be separate from larger issues and questions of language and race.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Zachary Casey’s A Pedagogy of “Anticapitalist Antiracism”
20 Nov 2019
Many antiracist practices in schools are almost immediately coopted, privatized, and rendered ineffective.
Martha Waggoner
Marker Now Calls 1898 Violence in Wilmington a “Coup,” Not a “Race Riot”
20 Nov 2019
White Democrats burned and killed their way to power in what's viewed as the only successful coup d'etat in American history.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Hybrid Warfare in Bolivia and Beyond
13 Nov 2019
The violent coup in Bolivia, like all of Washington’s regime-change and dirty tricks operations, has been aided and abetted by corporate media’s masters of euphemism.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Obama Condemns “Call Out Culture” Despite Being Its Biggest Beneficiary
13 Nov 2019
Obama’s cynical analysis of youth activism was yet another dog whistle to the wealthiest and most conservative sections of white America.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Walter Mignolo and Catherine Walsh’s “On Decoloniality”
13 Nov 2019
The dominant conceptions and ideals of Western civilization aim to violate, destroy, and eliminate all that obstructs and impedes its path.
Boké Saisi
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
13 Nov 2019
Black class relations explicated, Moynihan debunked, slave life explored, prison abolition made conceivable – all this is teachable.
Ethan Johnson
On Death and Dying as a Black Studies Professor at Portland State University
13 Nov 2019
In celebration of Black Study’s 50th year in existence at Portland State, we also get to watch its death.
Riva Enteen
McCarthyism Redux
13 Nov 2019
The National Lawyers Guild, born in resistance to political witch-hunts, seems to have neutered itself in the face of the new wave of manufactured hysteria.
Dr. Kweli Nzito
The Robbers Come Home to Roost
13 Nov 2019
The US has made violation of legal and civilizational norms…normal, guaranteeing that the demons it has unleashed on the world will be returned-to-sender.