Whiteness and social change : remnant colonialisms and white civility in Australia and Canada / by Colin Salter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salter, Colin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Australia--Ethnic identity.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Canada--Ethnic identity.

Racism--Australia.

Racism.

Racism--Canada.

Social change--Australia.

Social change.

Social change--Canada.

White people--Race identity--Australia.

White people.

White people--Race identity--Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Whiteness and Social Change provides a comparative engagement with whiteness - the unearned and at times unmarked social-structural privilege afforded to some at the expense of others - in contemporary Australia and Canada.

Contents:

Introduction

Parables and paradigms of whiteness

Studying whiteness has its challenges

(Mis)interpreting the Wave Hill walkout

"Practical reconciliation" at Sandon Point

"Together in difference" in the Red Hill Creek valley

Technologies of whiteness : learning from theory and praxis.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4438-4520-5

OCLC:

829713485