Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

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

5 reviews

waybeyondblue's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Classism

Moderate: Racial slurs, War, Slavery, Islamophobia, Genocide, Violence, Police brutality, Gun violence, and Colonisation

Minor: Cultural appropriation

selimhannah's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, Classism, Slavery, Colonisation, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Islamophobia, Genocide, Hate crime, Police brutality, and Violence

Minor: Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Torture, Sexism, Sexual violence, Antisemitism, and Deportation

epellicci's review against another edition

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. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Classism, Police brutality, and Slavery

Minor: Deportation, Genocide, Cultural appropriation, and Religious bigotry

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

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

Minor: Sexism, Slavery, Sexual assault, and Rape

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