Natives Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire Book Review Report

This book review report provides a summary of the argument, author, contents, method, and strengths and weaknesses of Natives Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire. It discusses the impact of race and class on British and African societies.

NATIVES RACE AND
Class in the ruins of
empire book review
report

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Summary of argument............................................................................................................3
Author.....................................................................................................................................4
Summary of contents..............................................................................................................4
Method....................................................................................................................................5
Context of the book................................................................................................................5
Strengths and weaknesses.......................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Book review refers to a descriptive along with critical account of a book. This can help to
provide summary of the content that can be understand through it. It can enable individual to get
the understand about main points which are effective and provide response towards the assessing
and value of books along with its recommendations. This can be an objective summary of main
ideas which are associated with different and main argument of the authors ideas which are
described in the book. There is discussion about the summary of argument which can help to
provide overview of books. There is also discussion about the author and main context of book.
This also includes the summary of content and method which are used by author to research the
book content (Tugano, A. C. (2018)). There is also discussion about the strength and weakness
of the argument which are discussed within book. This may include the overall opinion about the
book that can have impact on readers and individual person.
MAIN BODY
Summary of argument
Book has the argument about the race and class which includes the liberation of humanity
from oppression and exploitation. It also includes the relationship between American along with
British Black culture where it includes the criticism about taking all the jobs. It includes the
argument about main question like why and how racism has extended historically which is
mainly against the black people. It also provides the argument about how it is operation in
present (Kuzner, J. (2020)). This books also provides some argument on to tackle the situation
but not able to provide optimism possible answer which can due to lack of pessimistic
conclusion. This books provides the arguments about the class and race which can admits
through crossover between assumption that include race and class indicators. This book also
talks about the discrimination where racial marker is high important which leads to create the
disadvantages with negative stereotyping within one position of society. It also includes about
the interrogation to the black community which includes the self-proclaimed Pan-Africanist
through Marxism. It also includes about the denominator which can bring about disparate race
together with shared experience that includes white supremacy. Here, books also cover the
theory of race which anti-imperialism shed light about social position where black people were
entering. Book include the argument about the limitation about anti-blackness which is one of

the main driver of racism (Cocksworth, A. (2021)). Here, black slavery in America was
inevitable. This book also provides the information about mis-step which includes the talks about
African elites both as business partners with British and with their role as middle men within
trade of slavery (Masinire & Ndofirepi, (2020)). This book also provides the argument about the
longer historical legacy of slavery along with colonial experience within modern Britain. Within
book there is argument about the negative impact of racism which includes class and race which
constantly talk about negative side of the race and class through which African has suffered.
About the Author
Akala is the author of book ‘Natives Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire”. Akala is
MOBO and BADTA award-winning hip-hop artist, social entrepreneur and writer along with co-
founder of Hip-Hip Shakespeare Company with global tourism history. Akala has national as
well as international appear at numerous festivals. There are numerous innovative projects like
education, music across South East Asia, India, Australia, Africa, arts New Zealand. Akala has
also appeared in different channels like Sky Arts, MTV, ITV, Channel 4 and BBC for promoting
his poetry and music. Akala has also awarded as an honorary degree from the Oxford Brookes
University along with University of Brighton (Deam Tobin, (2021)). He has also written the
Guardian, Huffington Post and The Independent. Akala has gained as the respect as articulate
and dynamic talent within UK. He has the expertise in music where he has earned more respect
than others (Hall, C. (2018)).
Context of the book
During writing the book, at that there was racism within country which includes different
cases which includes the campaign where black life matters. There were also some cases where
black people were getting some of victim due to facing issue due to race and class. In this, it was
effective to get better knowledge regarding better impact on the service delivery which was
associated with taking care of black people. This may also include different impact that are
associated with taking about the different scenario which was happening during the book was
written. During this, time, there was kneeling protests against the racism along with social
injustice which resonate on and off the field. There was also another case in which many of the
random call for 911 get about the black Americans which was for doing the normal activity like
swimming, golfing, sitting at Starbucks, barbecuing, gardening, eating at subway leaving corner
store or cashing cheque at bank and many other activities. These were the activities which may

feel threatened to white people and make them to dial 911 (Abbas, M. S. (2020)). This shown
that when black people do the regular activity and white get threatened which means there is
something unusual that indicates about some discrimination or leads to race of class within
society. These were some of the activity which happened during writing the books which also
impact Akala to get influence by those incidents negatively. There was the event of
denaturalisation which includes the next front in Trump administrations war on immigration.
This was the political event that may have influenced author during writing the book.
Summary of contents
Here, author raise the issues regarding race and class which create high difference between
people with black and white colour. There is high difference which includes the difference that
may assist to explore different ideas about the effective response which are associated with
taking care of individual which indicates the difference between white and black people. This
books also includes the realism about the African and American people includes class and
slavery. This emphasis the racial society that provides the information about different negative
sides about the effective response towards the enhancement about race and class which also
impact the slavery (Kundnani, (2021)). Her, main theme of the books is to care and class which
includes its various element that are affected through education, sexual objectification, identity to
politics and far right. It also includes the British denial along with squeamishness that confronts
the issues of class and race with heart of Britain’s racialized empire. It includes about the impact
of politics through race and class which manifest life of many individual like the author.
Currently media includes that there are large number of black people who are at the higher
position within different sector which is the sign that what has be emphasised in the book. This
also includes the difference between the racial impact which has not been covered fully that has
positive sides which show the partiality of the argument which shows the biasness.
Method
Here, author has the spectacular approach which includes the life learning through living
the life which includes different opinion about different race. here, many of data gathering has
done to personal experience and through getting different interview and various research which
can help to provide different extremities about differentiation between better and effective
response towards the research (Cronin, (2018)). This includes the effectiveness of the book
through collecting information that associates the issues related with ethics. There is ethical issue

about different respective that includes impact on securing and ethical concern which are
associated with contextualization the race and class. This also includes the information that
should focus on the delivery of ethical concern during collecting information for the book. Book
is reliable which includes different resource and valid information which can be inform about the
race and class differentiation within black and white. This includes different reliable information
that creates high impact on creating high impact shared information which associated with taking
care of different impact and influence people to talk about it. Book provides qualitative data
which have different evidence using various resources that provide information and collection of
data regarding race and class within African and British. There is some problem with the shared
information through book where author fails to explain some other things like about how racism
operated between black groups. Author face the problem during differentiating between the
black and white nationalism where white nationalism referred as bad and black nationalism
referred as good (Keinz & Lewicki, (2019)).
Strengths and weaknesses
This book emphasizes about race and class. This is the one that has been discussed
effectively throughout the book that implies and discussion about more briefly. It also delivers
the information which includes discrimination and differences in rece and class. It also includes
both black and white people regarding the research where black people has been highly affected
through the race. It has also been treated as backward and they are supposed to be slave and
deliver throughout the previous time. It is also included about the various aspect of racism,
discrimination and highly effect the British and African. This also emphasizes about range of
argument which provide that every individual should be treated well and should have a equal
value but due to their black and white nationalism, it create the genealogies where black
nationalism where good and white nationalism referred as bad (Oommen, M. A. (2021)).
Here, it need to ensure about the particular area where it was also needed to briefly
elaborate about the various superiority on the higher that emphasize about getting equality
instead of only discrimination. It should have more focus about the opportunity which has
grabbed by some of the black people through their talent and overcome from dear previous
perspective. This would have taken more effective elaboration that can help the positive
argument.

Weakness includes that books has differentiated between white and black nationalism which
enclose the tracing of different genealogies which have the assumption that white nationalism
refers as bad and black nationalism are good. This create the binary idea which separates white
from black with goodness and badness. The author also provide through taking some famous
black Nationalist such as Mohammad Ali and Bob Marley rather than other like Robert Mugabe
and Idi Amin (Accilien, C. (2019)).
CONCLUSION
Books emphasis the direction and various information which includes different learning that
may help in getting better and effective learning that are associated with taking care of individual
that are associated with briefing in the book. There is also knowledge which includes the word
related with race and class that is one of the theme where people has faced in their life. This also
impacted the association that were influenced through getting better and effective response
towards the race and class. Books provides the understanding about effective response towards
the learning of race and class. This may influence about the effective care and reality which was
associated with race and class within society. There is range of audience that may include people
in Africa and British that were included in the reading and can provide benefits to the target
audience. Book provide high knowledge about the African and British which includes more
information about the response towards the information associated with race and class.

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