A review by dannymason_1
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala

3.0

I enjoyed each individual part of this, agree with pretty much everything he's saying and really like Akala both as a rapper and a public figure, but I think overall this book was a bit of a victim of its own ambition. I would have enjoyed it more as just a memoir, a political manifesto, a history or a music book, or even any two of those things combined, but the attempt to integrate all of them into one book meant that no individual thread got as much time as I wanted.