'I recommend Natives to everyone' Candice Carty-Williamsįrom the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist teachers - race and class have shaped Akala's life and outlook. It's personal, historical, political, and it speaks to where we are now' Benjamin Zephaniah 'This is the book I've been waiting for - for years. In personalised chapters covering the police, education and identity, politics, sexual objectification and the far right, he confronts the issues of race and class at the heart of the legacy of Britain's racialised empire in this fierce and articulate polemic.SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE | THE JHALAK PRIZE | THE BREAD AND ROSES AWARD & LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING This is a searing, thought-provoking book ( Stylist)Ī book bristling with intelligence and insight ( Irish Times) But reading Natives - witnessing the kind of disruptive, aggressive intellect that a new generation is closely watching - I can't help but be just that (Afua Hirsch Guardian)Ī potent combination of autobiography and political history which holds up a mirror to contemporary Britain ( Independent)Ī history lesson of the kind you should get in school but don't.
Akala makes it clear that he is not brimming with optimism. Part biography, part polemic, this powerful, wide-ranging study picks apart the British myth of meritocracy ( Guardian)Īkala is at his best destroying the comfortable myths that are invoked by white fragility to downplay attempts to correct the historical record.
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