10 Best nonfiction books like Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Commonalities) by Ashon T. Crawley

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Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Commonalities)

By: Ashon T. Crawley

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE JUDY TSOU CRITICAL RACE STUDIES AWARD! In this profoundly innovative book, Ashon T. …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Commonalities) by Ashon T. Crawley , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Pedagogy of the Oppressed

By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more

Similar categories in Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed book and Ashon T. Crawley's Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Commonalities)

  • history
  • theory
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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2. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts book and Ashon T. Crawley's Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Commonalities)

  • nonfiction
  • queer

3. Discourse on Colonialism

By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more

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4. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Bevins's The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World book and Ashon T. Crawley's Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Commonalities)

  • theory
  • nonfiction
  • history
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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5. Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

By: Da’Shaun Harrison

4.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Exploring anti-fatness and anti-Blackness at the intersections of race, police violence, gender ide… read more

Similar categories in Da’Shaun Harrison's Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness book and Ashon T. Crawley's Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Commonalities)

  • theory
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Ugly is political. It is the determiner for who does and does not work; who does and does not Love; who does and does not die; who does and does not eat."

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

"What is the utility of "body positivity" if it only seeks to provide one with a false sense of confidence rather than to liberate all from that which cages the body?"

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

"What would it mean for us to lean into Insecurity as a political tool in which we free ourselves from insisting that we perform "perfection" and total confidence in order to advocate for our collecti…"

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

"What I am really naming here is the complicatedness of feeling both affirmed and harmed by your assault because your body is never really your own when you're fat and Black, and the trauma you arrive…"

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

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6. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

By: Jenny Odell

3.68

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Odell's How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy book and Ashon T. Crawley's Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Commonalities)

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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7. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

By: C. Riley Snorton

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans em… read more

Similar categories in C. Riley Snorton's Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity book and Ashon T. Crawley's Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Commonalities)

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • queer
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8. Christian Atheism: How to Be a Real Materialist

By: Slavoj Žižek

3.89

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

If we want to be true atheists, do we have to begin with a religious edifice and undermine it from … read more

Similar categories in Slavoj Žižek's Christian Atheism: How to Be a Real Materialist book and Ashon T. Crawley's Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Commonalities)

  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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9. Gender Without Identity

By: Avgi Saketopoulou

4.48

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Gender Without Identity offers an innovative and at times unsettling theory of gender formation. Ro… read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of The Anarchy of Black Religion: A Mystic Song (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study) by J. Kameron Carter

10. The Anarchy of Black Religion: A Mystic Song (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)

By: J. Kameron Carter

4.56

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

In The Anarchy of Black Religion , J. Kameron Carter examines the deeper philosophical, theological… read more

Similar categories in J. Kameron Carter's The Anarchy of Black Religion: A Mystic Song (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study) book and Ashon T. Crawley's Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Commonalities)

  • theology
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11. Black Trans Feminism

By: Marquis Bey

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in w… read more

Similar categories in Marquis Bey's Black Trans Feminism book and Ashon T. Crawley's Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Commonalities)

  • theory
  • nonfiction
  • academic
  • queer
Cover of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Commonalities) by Ashon T. Crawley

12. Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Commonalities)

By: Ashon T. Crawley

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE JUDY TSOU CRITICAL RACE STUDIES AWARD! In this profoundly innovative book, Ashon T. … read more

Similar categories in Ashon T. Crawley's Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Commonalities) book and Ashon T. Crawley's Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Commonalities)

  • history
  • theology
  • theory
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • grad school
  • nonfiction
  • queer

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