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From Encyclopedia of Urban Studies
Ghetto has a specific historical reference to the segregation of Jews within the Ghetto Nuovo in Venice of the 1400s, from which the name is derived, and to the segregated residential quarters that developed in European cities in the following century. The ethnic communities of Jewish immigrants in American cities were also called ghettos. In more recent times, ghetto has been used to describe African American communities in the inner city, often characterized by high rates of poverty, crime, and social dislocation. Current discussions about the ghetto have raised concerns about the use of the term to define other ethnic communities and about the connections drawn to low-income communities in other countries—the Brazilian favela , French ban-lieue , South American shantytown, and Asian slum. This entry looks at the original Venice ghetto and the subsequent usage of the term in the United States. The Jewish community in Venice dates to AD 1382, when the Venetian government authorized…
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From Dictionary of Race, Ethnicity & Culture
The term ‘ghetto’, from the Venetian dialect ghetto , originally and principally refers to a street, an area or even a complete city, used as an enforced permanent residence for JEWS . Today, the term is applied - especially in the USA and not least in American popular culture-to run-down, though no…
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From World of Sociology, Gale
The term ghetto has taken on a derogatory...
The term “ghetto” is used to describe an urban area occupied by a segregated group . Originally ghettos referred to Jewish settlements in pre-war European cities, such as Warsaw, Poland. The term, however, has expanded to residential segregation along any dimensions. Portions of the inner-urban…
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From Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology
This term comes from the early modern Italian practice of setting aside urban neighborhoods for Jewish people. Over time, the term retained its association with the enforced segregation of Jews in Europe, but in the United States in the twentieth century, ghetto was generalized to other social…
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From Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice
The word ghetto is a loan word that likely emerged from the Italian word borghetto , meaning “little borough,” although there are other possible etymological origins ( Haynes & Hutchison, 2012 , pp. vii–x). It is also possible that the word ghetto is a derivative of the Hebrew word get or…
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From Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History: A Companion to Nazi Germany Full text Article Race, Imperialism, and Genocide
History of Ghettos in Nazi-Occupied Europe The majority of Jews persecuted by the Nazis shared the experience of being forced to live in a ghetto for a certain period. Some of these ghettos existed for several years, others only for a few weeks or even days. While several ghettos were hermetically…
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From Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedias in Social Sciences: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies
The 2014/2015 Sawyer Seminar at Carnegie Mellon University, titled “The Ghetto: Concept, Conditions, and Connections in Transnational and Historical Perspective,” included four case studies: “Jewish Ghettos in Early Modern Europe” (focusing on the ghetto as a place for confining the Jewish…
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From Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word ghetto first appeared in English in Thomas Coryat's descriptions of Venice's Jewish communities in his travelogue Coryat's Crudities (1611). Although the precise etymology of the word ghetto remains the subject of scholarly debate, it is commonly…
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From International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
An entrance to the Jewish ghetto in...
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Glossary Apartheid A term meaning “separation” in Afrikaans, referring to a period in South Africa from 1948 to 1993 when the ruling white supremacist National Party divided the country into four racial groups and created separate residential areas for each…
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From Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
Ghettos are often filled with abandoned or...
The term “ghetto” refers to an urban residential enclave occupied by socially, politically, and economically disadvantaged minority groups. Often isolated from the rest of the city through physical or social barriers, most ghettos feature poor housing, schooling, and employment opportunities, as…
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From Encyclopedia of African-American Politics
A ghetto is an area of a city where members of a minority group live because of social, economic, political, or legal constraints. The term was first used to refer to areas of European cities where members of the Jewish ethnic group lived or were required to live. In the United States the term…
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