Product Description: In Whiteness and Social Change Colin Salter provides a comparative engagement with whiteness - the unearned and at times unmarked social-structural privilege afforded some at the expense of others - in contemporary Australia and Canada...read more

This groundbreaking book brings the study of whiteness and postcolonial perspectives to bear on debates about urban change.A thought-provoking contribution to debates about urban change, race and cosmopolitan urbanismBrings the study of whiteness to the discipline of geography, questioning the notion of white ethnicityEngages with Indigenous peoples' experiences of whiteness – past and present, and with theoretical postcolonial perspectivesUses Sydney as an example of a 'city of whiteness', considering trends such as Sydney's 'SoHo Syndrome' and the 'Harlemisation' of the Aboriginal community

This groundbreaking book brings the study of whiteness and postcolonial perspectives to bear on debates about urban change.A thought-provoking contribution to debates about urban change, race and cosmopolitan urbanismBrings the study of whiteness to the discipline of geography, questioning the notion of white ethnicityEngages with Indigenous peoples' experiences of whiteness – past and present, and with theoretical postcolonial perspectivesUses Sydney as an example of a 'city of whiteness', considering trends such as Sydney's 'SoHo Syndrome' and the 'Harlemisation' of the Aboriginal community

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