Landscapes of Privilege: The Politics of the Aesthetic in an American Suburb.(Book Review)

Publication: Journal of Cultural Geography

Publication Date: 22-MAR-05

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Landscapes of Privilege: The Politics of the Aesthetic in an American Suburb. By James S. Duncan and Nancy G. Duncan. New York: Routledge, 2004. List of figures and tables, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, and index, xiv+261 pp. $22.95 paper. ISBN: 0-415-94688-3.

Landscapes of Privilege uses an ethnographic case study of Bedford, New York to support a general theoretical argument relating aesthetic consumption to social inequality in U.S. society. In doing so, authors James and Nancy Duncan not only pointedly criticize the fastest growing physical expression of U.S. culture--the suburb--but also its WASPish residents.

Seeking evidence of social ills, particularly those concealed by white privilege and pastoral scenes, the study is...

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