ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates young people's perceptions of race and ethnicity in the mainly-white region of North East England. It considers their attitudes to anti-racism and identifies the barriers preventing a more cosmopolitan and multicultural outlook befitting of global times. The chapter demonstrates how young working-class people living in mainly-white areas can begin to connect with anti-racism through an informed cultural geography, or 'pedagogy of place'. The material on which this chapter is based draws upon ethnographic research undertaken with children and young people in North East England. The aim was to understand how children and young people feel about whiteness, racism and anti-racism. Ultimately, the fact that white youth felt alienated from the overarching philosophy of anti-racism meant that it had little chance to succeed or make any lasting inroads upon their public consciousness. In order to prise open some new geographical imaginings and reveal the relevance of anti-racism, the chapter attempts to develop some alternative cultural pedagogies of place.
