Cities of whiteness
By: Wendy S. Shaw.
Series: Antipode book series
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781405129121; 9781405129138
Subjects: Urban geography -- Australia; Urbanization -- Australia; Whites -- Race identity -- Australia; Racism -- Australia; Aboriginal Australians -- Attitudes; Australia -- Race relations
Description: Shaw challenges ideas about urban change, race and cosmopolitan urbanism. By questioning the notion of white ethnicity and engaging with indigenous peoples' experiences of whiteness, this work provides different ways of seeing cities and of conceptualising the processes of power that are at work within them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Encountering cities of whiteness; title: (Post-)colonial Sydney; title: The good old days; title: Cosmopolitan metropolitanism (or the indifferent city); title: Cities of whiteness.