[csaa-forum] new book: Whiteness and Social Change — Remnant Colonialisms in Australia and Canada

[Colin Salter]

Dear Colleagues,

For those who may be interested, my book Whiteness and Social Change — Remnant Colonialisms in Australia and Canada was published in January 2013 through Cambridge Scholars Press.

Details from the back cover.

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.

Through a detailed examination of high profile community campaigns at Sandon Point (New South Wales, Australia) and the Red Hill Creek valley (Ontario, Canada)—situated alongside an analysis of white interpretations of the 1966 Wave Hill walkout (Northern Territory, Australia)—the actions of broader communities supporting First Peoples struggles expose whiteness as manifesting itself irrespective of intent.

Existing scholarship in sociology, science studies, political theory and critical whiteness studies are drawn on to identify means through which whiteness can be destabilised. The outcome is an identification of how collaborative struggle and the politics of experience produce moments of cognitive dissonance amongst white supporters. These moments are transformative, lay foundations for respect and recognition, and the move towards a fair and just society.

Colin Salter provides an up-close, theoretically informed and critically alert analysis of how white ways of knowing can permeate the assumptions and actions of white supporters of Indigenous campaigns. This is important and delicate work that honours both the necessity of solidarity and its challenges. White normativity can recede from notice even among well-intentioned white people, and Colin Salter helps bring its recessive dynamics into view so that white allies can develop the necessary reflexivity to approach Indigenous neighbours with respect.
—Professor Daniel Coleman, 
author of White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada, 
Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University


It is available direct from the publisher — http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/Whiteness-and-Social-Change--Remnant-Colonialism-and-White-Civility-in-Australia-and-Canada1-4438-4087-4.htm and the usual places.

I have a limited number available for $65 including post, and can be contacted directly for a copy.

Regards,
Colin

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