Cities of WhitenessISBN: 978-1-4051-2913-8
Hardcover
232 pages
November 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Paperback
|
- A thought-provoking contribution to debates about urban change,
race and cosmopolitan urbanism
- Brings the study of whiteness to the discipline of geography,
questioning the notion of white ethnicity
- Engages with Indigenous peoples’ experiences of whiteness
– past and present, and with theoretical postcolonial
perspectives
- Uses Sydney as an example of a 'city of whiteness', considering trends such as Sydney’s 'SoHo Syndrome' and the 'Harlemisation' of the Aboriginal community