Cities of Whiteness

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This groundbreaking book brings the study of whiteness andpostcolonial perspectives to bear on debates about urban change. * 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 postcolonialperspectives * Uses Sydney as an example of a 'city of whiteness', consideringtrends such as Sydney's 'SoHo Syndrome' and the 'Harlemisation' ofthe Aboriginal community

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Wendy S. Shaw

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Geographie Geography Social & Cultural Geography Social Identity Social Policy & Welfare Social Problems Sociology Soziale Identität Soziale Probleme Sozialpolitik u. Wohlfahrt Sozio- u. Kulturgeographie Soziologie

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"Cities of Whiteness is an important contributionto our understanding of how race works in the postmodern city. Itshows in clear and convincing detail how whiteness is bound up withproperty, heritage and fear." Alastair Bonnett, Newcastle University "Wendy S. Shaw writes with passion, with politicalcommitment, carefully and engagingly, and with the kind of gallowshumour that can be expected in grim situations. Her subtle andalways empirically-grounded analysis astutely picks at theinvisible structures of racialization that underpin white privilegeand power. Sydney and New York, after Cities of Whiteness,are not such virtuous cities of multiculturalism. Instead, we seethese cities afresh, complete with their promiscuous and particularprocesses of white superiority." Steve Pile, The Open University"Cities of Whiteness is an important contribution toour understanding of how race works in the postmodern city. Itshows in clear and convincing detail how whiteness is bound up withproperty, heritage and fear." -Alastair Bonnett, Newcastle University "Wendy S. Shaw writes with passion, with politicalcommitment, carefully and engagingly, and with the kind of gallowshumour that can be expected in grim situations. Her subtle andalways empirically-grounded analysis astutely picks at theinvisible structures of racialization that underpin white privilegeand power. Sydney and New York, after Cities of Whiteness,are not such virtuous cities of multiculturalism. Instead, we seethese cities afresh, complete with their promiscuous and particularprocesses of white superiority." -Steve Pile, The Open University
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