{"id":56491,"date":"2018-05-28T14:17:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T14:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56491"},"modified":"2018-05-28T14:39:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T14:39:50","slug":"natives-race-and-class-in-the-ruins-of-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56491","title":{"rendered":"Natives: Race and class in the ruins of empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tworoadsbooks.com\/non-fiction\/natives-akala\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Natives: Race and class in the ruins of empire<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tworoadsbooks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two Roads Books<\/a> (an imprint of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hodder.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hodder &amp; Stoughton<\/a>)<br \/>\n2018-05-17<br \/>\n352 pages<br \/>\n5.7 x 1.3 x 8.7 inches<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN-13: 978-1473661219<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-1473661226<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.akalamusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Akala<\/a> (Kingslee James Daley)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tworoadsbooks.com\/non-fiction\/natives-akala\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tworoadsbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Natives-cover-for-website.jpg\" alt=\"Natives\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A searing modern polemic from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Academy_of_Film_and_Television_Arts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BAFTA<\/a>&#8211; and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MOBO_Awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MOBO<\/a>-award-winning musician and political commentator, Akala<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WUtAxUQjwB4?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>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 \u2013 race and class have shaped Akala\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Covering everything from the police, education and identity to politics, sexual objectification and the far right, <em>Natives<\/em> 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\u2019s racialised empire.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/atfVUgyEIOI?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A searing modern polemic from the BAFTA- and MOBO-award-winning musician and political commentator, Akala<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,459,17,26,23674,394,10],"tags":[15319,22954,28704],"class_list":["post-56491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-history","category-monographs","category-politics","category-social-justice","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-akala","tag-kingslee-james-daley","tag-two-roads-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56492,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56491\/revisions\/56492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}