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ghetto
A term with its origins in eastern Europe, used to designate the part of town occupied by Jewish citizens. Now the term ghetto is used to describe any urban area suffering significant deterioration, often predominated by one or a very few ethnic or racial groups. Disputes often arise regarding whether lenders, insurers, and other service providers are engaged in illegal discrimination when they redline these neighborhoods, or whether they are assessing risks based on the quality of the infrastructure and not on any judgments regarding the inhabitants.


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We call on all organizations, networks, institutions, unions and concerned media to mobilize during the 7th Week against the Apartheid Wall and to:* Protest the overarching Israeli policy of ghettoization behind a system of walls that targets the Palestinian people, whether in Gaza or the West Bank, isolating them from each other and the Palestinians inside the Green Line.
Similarly, and in tandem, the notion of the "mongrel past" works to present hybridity as a historical alternative to the racial identities bequeathed by slavery, segregation, and ghettoization.
We don't want to create a new college or seminary, which can lead to intellectual ghettoization," says Terry LeBlanc (Mi'Kmaq/Acadian), national ministries director of My People International and chair of NAIITS.
 
 
 
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