Aesthetics, abjection, and white privilege in suburban New York

Landscape and Race in the United States

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 157-176

  Duncan, James ^a   Duncan, Nancy ^b  

^a EMMANUEL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b FITZWILLIAM COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203621622     Document Type: Chapter

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