A review by epellicci
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.5
I struggled to keep up with some of the history in Natives. There is a lot of it and I’m very bad with keeping timelines organised in my head, so it did make the beginning of this book, where these details are most focused, a little tricky. But that is not a reflection of the writing.
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.
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