![]() ![]() The book takes as its starting point Akala’s own experiences of growing up Black and working class, and asks, not how he has managed to build a successful career with that background, but what the barriers were which tried to stop him from doing so. ![]() I was therefore drawn to Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire, by activist and hip-hop artist Akala, by its subtitle, which promises to put race and class back in conversation with each other. This distinction is often used in discussions of racism and immigration policy to erase the existence of non-white and migrant working class communities, and in education to suggest that attainment gaps for white working class boys are due to reverse-racism rather than to socioeconomic inequalities. There has been a tendency, in recent years, for the mainstream media to only talk about social class in order to set up divisions between the “white working class” and people of colour. ![]()
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