Natives : race and class in the ruins of empire / Akala.
By: Akala [author.]
.Publisher: London : Two Roads, 2018Description: 342 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781473661240; 9781473661219; 9781473661226; 9781473674400.Subject(s): Racism -- Great Britain -- History | Social classes -- Great Britain -- History | Great Britain -- Race relations -- History | Great Britain -- Colonies | Great Britain -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 305.800941 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 305.800941 AKA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 015131 |
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| 305.8001 PAR A new politics of identity : | 305.80074 KUP The museum of other people / | 305.800905 KAU Whiteshift : populism, immigration and the future of white majorities / | 305.800941 AKA Natives : race and class in the ruins of empire / | 305.800941 CAB Mixed race Britain in the twentieth century / | 305.800941 DEV Devolution and identity / | 305.800941 DHI The shoulders we stand on : how Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom / |
1. Born in the 1980s -- Interlude: a guide to denial -- 2. The day I realised my mum was white -- 3. Special needs? -- 4. Linford's lunchbox -- 5. Empire and slavery in the British memory -- 6. Scotland and Jamaica -- 7. Police, peers, and teenage years -- 8. Why do white people love Mandela? Why do conservatives hate Castro? -- 9. The Ku Klux Klan stopped crime by killing black people -- 10. Britain and America -- 11. The decline of whiteness, the decline of race? (Or the end of capitalism?).
"From 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. In this unique book he takes his own experiences and widens them out to look at the social, historical and political factors that have left us where we are today.
Covering everything from the police, education and identity to politics, sexual objectification and the far right, Natives will speak directly to British denial and squeamishness when it comes to confronting issues of race and class that are at the heart of the legacy of Britain's racialised empire." Hodder & Stoughton website.
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