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- Title
Ethnic Home Improvement: Gentrifying the Ghetto, Spicing Up the Suburbs.
- Authors
Dwyer, June
- Abstract
The author discusses the dispute between Sandra Cisneros and the review commission due to painting her house at San Antonio, Corsican purple, challenging the Anglo dominance in white middle class. The author mentions that it resulted into discussions related to classism, racism and environmental justice. He discusses the ethnic American literature, American historic districts and the role played by the ethnics in providing liveliness to the suburbs.
- Subjects
HOUSE painting; ETHNIC groups; CLASSISM; MINORITY American literature; NEIGHBORHOODS
- Publication
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature & Environment, 2007, Vol 14, Issue 2, p165
- ISSN
1076-0962
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1093/isle/14.2.165