Citizen, Natives & Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race 3 Books Set - Non Fiction - Paperback

Titles in This Set
Citizen: An American Lyric
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

Details
Condition: Brand New
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141981772; 9781408870563
Publisher: Penguin; Bloomsbury Publishing; Two Roads

Overview
This three-book paperback collection brings together three of the most talked-about non-fiction titles on race, identity, and class from both sides of the Atlantic. Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric confronts everyday racism in America through lyric prose. Reni Eddo-Lodge's Sunday Times bestseller Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race unpacks Black British history and structural racism. Akala's Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire blends memoir and history to examine empire's legacy. Together, they offer an essential, thought-provoking set for readers, students, and book clubs exploring social justice today.

About the Books
Citizen: An American Lyric is a genre-defying work of prose poetry that captures the accumulated weight of everyday racism in the United States, moving between personal anecdote, sports commentary, and meditations on public tragedy to reveal how bias embeds itself in ordinary language and interaction. Claudia Rankine's restrained, precise voice has made this one of the most widely studied works of contemporary American literature. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race grew out of a viral blog post and became a defining book on race in modern Britain; Reni Eddo-Lodge traces the erasure of Black British history, the politics of class, and the limits of mainstream conversations about racism, becoming a Sunday Times bestseller in the process. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire sees rapper, journalist, and historian Akala weave personal memoir with a sweeping account of British imperial history, using his own upbringing in London to interrogate how race and class intersect in a country still reckoning with its colonial past. Read together, the three books trace a shared conversation across two nations, moving from lived experience to historical analysis to structural critique, giving readers a fuller picture of how race and power operate on both sides of the Atlantic. Each author uses a different lens — poetry, journalism, and memoir-driven history — yet all three converge on urgent questions of belonging and structural inequality.

Key Benefits

• Brings together three landmark, widely discussed non-fiction titles on race in one paperback set
• Includes a Sunday Times bestseller in Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
• Covers both American and British perspectives on race, class, and identity
• Ideal for book clubs, classroom discussion, and social justice reading lists
• Makes a thoughtful gift for readers interested in history, memoir, and contemporary politics
• Brand new paperback copies, ready for shelf, study, or gifting

Book-by-Book Guide
Citizen: An American Lyric — Claudia Rankine blends prose poetry and cultural commentary to expose the accumulated toll of everyday racism in America.
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race — Reni Eddo-Lodge traces Black British history and structural racism in a Sunday Times bestselling work of narrative non-fiction.
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire — Akala combines memoir and historical analysis to examine race, class, and Britain's imperial legacy.

About the Authors
Claudia Rankine is a poet and essayist whose work examines race and citizenship in contemporary America; Citizen: An American Lyric is among her best-known books. Reni Eddo-Lodge is a British journalist and author whose writing on race and class has shaped national conversations in the UK, earning her book major recognition including bestseller status. Akala is a British rapper, journalist, and historian known for blending memoir with political history; Natives draws on his own upbringing to explore race and class in Britain. Together, these writers bring poetry, journalism, and memoir to bear on shared questions of race and power.

Why You'll Love This Collection
This set pairs three powerful, essential voices on race, class, and identity in one brand new paperback bundle. Perfect for book clubs, classroom libraries, or as a thoughtful gift this holiday season for the reader in your life who wants to understand how history and society continue to shape conversations about race today.

Please Note: This is the UK edition with the ISBN as listed; the cover may vary slightly from the image shown.