To explain it simply White Hat SEO follows the rules that Google has established. And keeps establishing with the improvement of the Search engine. This is the slower method of website optimization but is a lot safer.
Black Hat tries to exploit bugs and faults in Google's algorithm. This is a fast method of optimization but has its risks. It has been proven that in time Google catches up to these bugs and glitches eventually and penalizes the websites that have them.
The Difference between black hat SEO and white hat SEO to do with the technique used when trying to improve a website search engine ranking.Black hat SEO Focuses on only search engines and not so much a human audience.White hat SEO refers to the use of techniques and strategies that target human audience opposed to a search engine.
The way I see it is any onsite work is considered white hat SEO (unless you are over-optimizing your site). So basically creating great and engaging content people would want to naturally link to and then all the technical onsite stuff (page speed, interlinking, etc..) is the only thing Google really considers to be SEO. Any kind of of unnatural link building would be considered black hat SEO.
Blackhat is when you use techniques forbidden by google for faster ranking - they come with a risk of penalty. It's usually going up for few weeks and then going rock bottom
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