epellicci's review against another edition
3.5
Natives is impassioned, which made it a brilliantly engaging audiobook. Superbly preformed and packed with individual testimony alongside the fact, it presents the human cost of class and racism in a way that could only be ignored by wilful ignorance. I found it reflective, uncomfortable, and engaging.
Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism
Moderate: Classism, Police brutality, and Slavery
Minor: Deportation, Genocide, Cultural appropriation, and Religious bigotry
esme_may's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, Violence, Racial slurs, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Antisemitism, Bullying, Classism, Religious bigotry, Xenophobia, Genocide, and Blood
Minor: Sexism, Slavery, Sexual assault, and Rape
flowingleaves's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Xenophobia, Classism, Racial slurs, Racism, and Police brutality
readingthroughinfinity's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Colonisation, Hate crime, Police brutality, and Racism
beca_reads's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Drug use, Murder, Police brutality, Violence, Hate crime, Slavery, Colonisation, Classism, Cursing, Gun violence, and Religious bigotry
britgirlreading's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Bullying, Classism, Slavery, Police brutality, Murder, and Hate crime
lukerik's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Classism, Colonisation, Genocide, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Racism
emcatbee's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Colonisation, and Cursing
Moderate: Antisemitism, Cancer, War, Violence, Trafficking, Rape, and Police brutality
charleygxrl's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence
librarianjess's review against another edition
5.0
His book discusses the insidiousness of racism in the UK, but how colourism and racism differs in varying degrees in different countries - tying them altogether. It is true that international events and occurrences in the Commonwealth and the Global South resonated with African and Caribbean communities here in Britain. His book demonstrated how the interconnectedness of the world allowed black Britons to feel connected to black culture, yet so far from it, whilst being racially excluded from their home in the UK.
His accounts of how 'liberal' white people in the UK perpetuate racism continually, and that it is this type of oppression that hits the UK the hardest. One of the parts that intrigued me the most was his discussions and his own personal experiences with racism within the school system. Teachers, and the institution of education itself, holds its hand up to say that the system purposefully disadvantages those of non-white backgrounds, yet equally does nothing about it.
Every single page in this book gave me an extremely poignant and heartbreaking personal account of racism, yet intertwined with statistics and studies that backed up these experiences. Akala is one of many.
This book for me was 5 stars and there is no force on earth that would let me give it any less. I was fully astounded by this book and I am going to read it again and again.
Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Xenophobia, and Murder
Moderate: Violence