Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

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

7 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

kristenreads's review

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Colonisation, Xenophobia, Violence, and Hate crime

readingthroughinfinity's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

This is an excellent, insightful piece of nonfiction about the history of racism and empire in the UK. It's clear that a lot of research went into this, as Akala delves into the Britain's colonial past and the damaging legacy it left behind for the countries colonised and in the way people of colour are treated in he UK today. He also discusses his childhood and own experiences of racism, weaving these anecdotes and stories together with the wider discussion of the issues faced by global African communities. A fantastic piece of nonfiction and one that I wish everyone (but especially white people) in the UK would read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Hate crime, Police brutality, and Racism

beca_reads's review

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Murder, Police brutality, Violence, Hate crime, Slavery, Colonisation, Classism, Cursing, Gun violence, and Religious bigotry

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

emcatbee's review against another edition

challenging funny hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Colonisation, and Cursing

Moderate: Antisemitism, Cancer, War, Violence, Trafficking, Rape, and Police brutality