Template:Did you know nominations/Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:44, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
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Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
... that, as described in Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire, Akala was placed in special needs classes for children who did not speak English, despite having read The Lord of the Rings?
Source: [1] "My teacher at seven put me in a special needs group for kids who didn’t speak English. She obviously knew I didn’t have problems with English – I was reading The Lord of the Rings at home." [2] "I was put in a special needs group because of a teacher who thought I was too bright for a working class brown boy."- ALT1:... that the rapper Akala explains in his book Natives why he was placed in special-needs classes for children who did not speak English, despite reading The Lord of the Rings at the time?
- Reviewed: Danielle Lessovitz
Created by Bilorv (talk). Self-nominated at 13:07, 14 June 2020 (UTC).
New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced. However, the sentence about him reading The Lord of the Rings does not have an inline cite and this fact does not appear in the cite at the end of the next sentence. ALT1 is a nicely written hook IMO but it would be helpful to identify who Akala is (... that rapper Akala...
).The title of the book is also too long and not so self-explanatory for the hook; perhaps it could be piped to just Natives?Image is fair use. QPQ done. Yoninah (talk) 19:08, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
