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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817257203321

Autore

Salter Colin

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013

ISBN

1-4438-4520-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 pages)

Disciplina

305.8

306.128

Soggetti

Indigenous peoples - Australia - Ethnic identity

Indigenous peoples - Canada - Ethnic identity

Racism - Australia

Racism - Canada

Social change - Australia

Social change - Canada

White people - Race identity - Australia

White people - Race identity - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.