Beyond white privilege: Geographies of white supremacy and settler colonialism

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 715-733

  Bonds, Anne ^a   Inwood, Joshua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Plant Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

indigenous geographies; land disputes; racism; settler colonialism; white privilege; white supremacy; whiteness

Indexed keywords

COLONIALISM; ECONOMIC IMPACT; RACISM; SOCIAL IMPACT; TERRITORIAL DISPUTE;

EID: 84994545648     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: 14770288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309132515613166     Document Type: Article

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