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Cities of Whiteness

“Cities of Whiteness is an important contribution to our understanding of how race works in the postmodern city. It shows in clear and convincing detail how whiteness is bound up with property, heritage and fear.”
–Alastair Bonnett, Newcastle University

“Wendy S. Shaw writes with passion, with political commitment, carefully and engagingly, and with the kind of gallows humour that can be expected in grim situations. Her subtle and always empirically-grounded analysis astutely picks at the invisible structures of racialization that underpin white privilege and power. Sydney and New York, after Cities of Whiteness, are not such virtuous cities of multiculturalism. Instead, we see these cities afresh, complete with their promiscuous and particular processes of white superiority.”
–Steve Pile, The Open University

Wendy S. Shaw (Author)

9781405129138, Wiley

Hardback, published 2 November 2007

232 pages
23.6 x 15.8 x 1.8 cm, 0.472 kg

"Shaw does a fascinating job combining the literature on urban transformation with whiteness studies and creating a unique reading of Sydney as a space of white privilege … .The book is well researched and tells a fascinating story of racialized urban change." (Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, December 2008)

This groundbreaking book brings the study of whiteness and postcolonial 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 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

List of Figures.

List of Boxes.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

1. Encountering Cities of Whiteness.

Journeying to Inner Sydney.

Cities as Cultural Constructions - Gentrification and Urbanism.

The Birth of Whiteness Scholarship.

Cities of Neo-colonial Whiteness.

2. (Post)colonial Sydney.

From Dangerous to Endangered City.

Securing Whiteness in the Paradoxical City.

Conclusions.

3. 'The Good Old Days'.

Heritage Dreaming.

Performing Sydney Heritage.

Activating Heritage.

Architectures of Escape 1: Into the Past.

Conclusions.

4. Cosmopolitan Metropolitanism (Or The Indifferent City).

Introduction.

Manhattan Dreaming (in Sydney Australia).

Architectures of Escape 2: Sydney's SoHo Syndrome.

Conclusions.

5. Cities of Whiteness.

Geographies of Urban Whiteness.

Studying Cities.

The End of (Cities of) Whiteness?

Bibliography.

Index.

Subject Areas: Geography [RG]
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