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Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala

7 reviews

ruthmoog's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

I learned so much from this book, but also found sometimes when stats were me tioned they were used or selected persuasively rather than reflecting the whole picture.
Nonetheless I am in agreement with Akalas views and enjoyed hearing from him about a range of black global experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Bullying and Violence

Lynching

esme_may's review

challenging emotional funny informative medium-paced

4.5

Everyone in the UK should read this. It would make a great introduction to reading about race as well, it's petty accessible and the narrative voice is delightfully sarcastic

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Genocide, Xenophobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, and Classism

Minor: Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Slavery

britgirlreading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Police brutality, Murder, and Classism

lukerik's review

funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

If Zack de la Rocha were British and wrote a book. 

It’s a hard piece of writing to categorise. Political and personal and polemical. It’s almost like a personal work of sociology, properly referenced and with an interesting bibliography. Akala is obviously a very intelligent man with a finely tuned bullshit detector and a laser-like intellect that he turns on some very confusing issues. Thorough, precise, and sensible arguments and he never takes rhetorical shortcuts even when he’s angry. I didn’t agree with all his conclusions, but if we’re all going to agree we may as well give up and stop thinking now. A very thought-provoking book. I often found it sending my mind off at tangents so that reading it is almost like engaging in a dialogue. Also very funny at times. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Genocide, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, Police brutality, Colonisation, and Classism

pollyflorence's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, and Police brutality

questingnotcoasting's review

challenging informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

This completely lived up to all the glowing reviews I'd seen. I meant to read it last month but didn't get round to it and I'm glad I didn't leave it any longer. Akala's writing is articulate, incisive and witty and he interweaves his lived experience with history so smoothly. He examines the way race and class intersect and builds a clear argument against the common misconception that the UK is a meritocracy. That in particular wasn't news to me but there was so much history here that I knew nothing about, including some fairly recent events. I just read Black and British by David Olusoga and I feel like the two books complement each other very well. I found them both really enlightening, especially in the way they dismantle the myths Britain has built around its history of colonialism and slavery. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, and Police brutality

achingallover's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, and Islamophobia