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"The Problem Of Place In America" And "My Neighborhood": The Breakdown Of Community
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"The Problem of Place in America" and "My Neighborhood": The Breakdown of
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In Ray Oldenburg's "The Problem of Place in America" and Ishmael Reed's
"My Neighborhood" the authors express thier dissatisfaction with the community.
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... today, prejudice and
consumerism. These keep our communities from becoming unified. Fear is one of
the prevalent themes in both essays. In Oldenburg's essay the suburbanite fears
the unknown, his neighbors. People feel threatened by the size of the
communities and they do not know anyone. These is due partly to consumerism,
which keeps people indoors. Reed was feared because of the color of his skin.
Dogs would bark at him as he walked by, cops would enter his own home to harass
him, people would yell racial slurs, and he was even watched closely to make
sure that he did not abduct a child off the street. These fears are a result of
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