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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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First, and most importantly, Faith and Intellect Oriented Christian Reflection Scales made it possible to focus on the negative correlation between these two measures that serves as an empirical marker of ghettoization in the United States.
Religious openness hypothesis: I. religious reflection, schemas, and orientations within religious fundamentalist and biblical foundationalist ideological surrounds
8] But more recent scholarship has often continued to locate lesbianism as prior to or outside of the forces of commodification and ghettoization, if using less vehement language and under the auspices of different ideological dispensations.
Bar and dog collar: commodity, subculture, and narrative in Jane Delynn
At the same time, the way that the larger reading public has embraced Diaz would suggest that he has transcended the literary ghettoization sometimes experienced by ethnic writers.
In and out of the mainstream: Dominican-American identity in Junot Diaz's How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie
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.
The amalgamation waltz; race, performance, and the ruses of memory
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.
Christ and whose culture? A new wave of Native American evangelical theologians rejects the false choice between following Jesus or embracing their traditions
If anything, they reinforce the ghettoization of conservatism, of which talk radio's echo chamber is the major symptom.
How radio wrecks the right: Limbaugh and company certainly entertain. But a steady diet of ideological comfort food is no substitute for hearty intellectual fare
It carries a grave risk of extremism, of ghettoization of one part of the Catholic world on such a sensitive issue.
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They may feel they do not belong to the larger community and withdraw from that larger community, creating the twin problems of ghettoization and silencing (a "chilled freedom of expression"), as well as adverse economic and social consequences for the target group.
What's going on with human rights commissions?
Spanning the years 1928 to 1968, the Regal Theater's history provides Professor Semmes with a great historical test case about the limits of cultural ownership in a society where "urbanization and ghettoization [are] .
Clovis E. Semmes. The Regal Theater and Black Culture
In doing so, she brought local, individual struggles of African Americans--against segregation, ghettoization, and capitalist exploitation--to the national stage.
"Somewhat like war": the aesthetics of segregation, black liberation, and A Raisin in the Sun
Florentine ghettoization was formerly seen as a sad endnote to a glorious Renaissance community.
The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence: The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community
MOST OF THESE Halloween parties began as a trickle in the '70s and '80s, back when gay ghettoization felt practical.
Halloween: is the party over? Once a place for gays to parade the outlandish and the outrageous, Halloween street parties have been overrun by college kids and gangbangers, appropriated by stroller--pushing moms and out-of-towners, and regulated by angry residents and city officials. Have we lost Halloween forever?
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