Natives is a non-fiction cum memoir book that looks critically at the state of lingering racism and racial inequality that continues to persist in the U.K despite the general attitude of ambivalence and denialism to these crippling issues that disproportionately affect the black British population.

This book is so necessary and valid! Akala speaks passionately but with just as much eloquence and authority on matters concerning anti-black sentiment in this country. This book particularly analyses the adverse implications of race and class, true to the title of the book, but personally, as a reader affected by not only race and class but gender as well, I would've loved a critical discussion on that last point, because he discuses everything else so seamlessly, it would've made me feel even more represented but I feel like I can't really critique the book on its absence of any concrete discussions about the ways in which black women have to navigate life in Britain because, this book does specify in the title what the general focus will be. But ultimately, Natives is a crucial book that anyone who claims to care about human rights should read.