"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
WR 121 Paper #2
In Ray Oldenburg's "The Problem of Place in America" and Ishmael Reed's
"My Neighborhood" the authors express thier dissatisfaction with the community.
Oldenburg focuses on the lack of a "third place" and the ....
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.... 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. ....
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