Placing race and nation, Peter Jackson and Jan Penrose. Part 1 Constructing the nation: Reification in the name of change - the impact of nationalism on social constructions of nation, people and place in Scotland and the United Kingdom, Jan Penrose; immigration and nation-building in Canada and the United Kingdom, Susan J. Smith. Part 2 Constructions of aboriginality: constructing geographies - race, place and the making of Sydney's Aboriginal Redfern, Kay J. Anderson; shake 'im this country - the mapping of the aboriginal sacred in Australia - the case of Coronation Hill, Jane M. Jacobs. Part 3 Places of resistance: sites of resistance - place, race and gender as sources of empowerment, Helen Clark; constructions of Muslim identity and the contesting of power - the debate over Muslim schools in the United Kingdom, Claire Dwyer. Part 4 Politics and position: contours of crisis - anti-racism and reflexivity, Alastair Bonnett; policing difference - race and crime in metropolitan Toronto, Peter Jackson; conclusion - identity and the politics of difference, Jan Penrose and Peter Jackson.