Natives

This book is a fantastic, enjoyable, informative and enlightening read. The personal accounts and experience combined with the extensive research and reference to historical accounts, culture and contemporary events creates a multi-dimensional understanding of the workings, perceptions and experience of race and class in Britain. I would recommend this to everyone.

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After listening to Akala on YouTube I was more than intrigued by his literary prowess displayed in this book. Akala integrates so many different fields of knowledge as he passionately affirms his points on race and class. He is very much on point when he argues that the suffering of black people in Britain is as real as the suffering of African Americans.Natives succeeds at showing up the hypocrisy of Britain in relation to its ideals and its actual treatment of colonial subjects. I would heartily recommend this book to any one interested in race relations in the colonial and modern era.

Deep

This absolutely fascinating book brings us into the reality if a racialised world and its rocky future. Great analysis mixed with personal experiences and data makes it a must read for all who are interested in a peaceful future with equal rights and justice for all!

Highly recommend for a book club or educational setting. This personal account filled with historical facts really cuts away the fog of keeping calm about historical injustice, racisms supported by a class system shrouded in the trappings of pomp.

This book was well written and researched. Thoroughly enjoyed this book, Thanks Akala ,Well done!

Through use of moving personal anecdotes and a wide breadth of historical and political knowledge, Akala skilfully and convincingly states his case for how he views racial and class issues in the UK and worldwide for the 21st century.

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Excellent work.

Da leggere! Molto interessante, scritto molto bene

I love Akala, his music is incredible, The Thieves Banquet is a masterpiece in itself, he is an erudite, brilliant guy whom it's hard not to admire. This book should be added to school curriculums, it should be taught to children to show them the racist past of imperialism and to emphasize the impact that still remains. It teaches how the history we are taught really is written by the victors, how the profundity of suffering that built the 'empire' is still not acknowledged by the ruling classes and how young black men and women, boys and girls, are still treated as outsiders in the country they call home, the references and other books quoted make you want to discover a plethora of literature that is out there to help educate anyone who wants to be informed. Search any talk on YouTube given by Akala, (as well as his Fire in the Booth sessions) and you will not regret it, he just excites you to learn more, and be aware of race and class, just like the title says. He is a genius. Love the man, love the book

フォーマット： Kindle版出版社: Two Roads (2018/5/17)ASIN: B0774TLPXS　のレビュー。　1983年ロンドン生まれ。母方の祖父はイングランド人、祖母はスコットランド人。父とは著者が幼少のころ別れるが、父方のおじさん、おばさんのジャマイカ系コニュニティーで育つ。これまで著者が育ったなかで遭遇した差別と人種主義に対し、さまざまな角度から分析し、反撃し、粉砕した、すばらしく明晰な筆さばきである。　怒りにあふれ、論理明晰であり、切れ味の鋭い文章、みんな読もう！　以下はサマリーではなく、わたしが気に入った部分３章　小学校にはいったとたんに受ける「利口すぎて口数が多いニグロ」に対する教師からの迫害。学習に障害があるクラスに編入させられる。４章　デザイン・ボルトが100メートル金メダルをとった頃に起きた「黒人アスリートの遺伝子」妄説を完璧に粉砕。デーエヌエーやらなんじゃらの虚妄をめった切り。5章　歴史の勉強。「ウィルバーフォースは偉い人。おまえら、あの方のおかげで自由になれたんだぞ、感謝しろ」というたわごとを撃沈。6章　母方のスコットランド、父方のジャマイカでの体験。ここ、少し理想化しすぎじゃなかな？7章　中学校でグレる。ポリスとの戦い。しかし、若者よ、学校をドロップアウトしちゃいかん。8章　マンデーラは自由への闘士、カストロは独裁者、というミドルクラスの言説をめった切り。9章　中学校での白人女教師との闘争。KKKは男女平等、中年女もジェノサイドが大好きなんだよ。10章　ここは、微妙な問題。レイシストは黒人一般を一把ひとからげにするけれど、では、ブリテンの黒人とUSAの黒人は同じ問題を共有できるか？　さらにブリテン生まれのカリブ海系とアフリカからの移民は、共闘できるか？11章　うーむ。著者は経済の「アジア」中心化を安易に礼賛しがちではないかなあ？　日本も中国も差別に満ちた歴史を持ってますよ。インドのロケット技術も、そんなに肯定的にとらえることかなあ？　というわけで、読んでいて元気が湧くけれど、単純に「明日からおれも黒人側だ」で終わっちゃまずいよね。　巻末の参考文献は、大部分が最近20年間に出版された学術書。本文中に出てくるし、わたしのような老人がむかーしむかし読んだC.L.R. ジェームズやエリック・ウィリアムズは含まれていません。最近の動向がわかってよろしい。　索引なし。