ghetto

(redirected from ghettoization)
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

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.

References in periodicals archive ?

Property speculation, absentee landlords, and governmental disinterest in the sixties and seventies resulted in the destruction of the area's property values and the increasing segregation and concurrent ghettoization of the black community--a ghettoization similar to that experienced in Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, and other major metropolitan areas.

Which Way to the Promised Land?: Spike Lee's Clockers and the Legacy of the African American City

This poses a dilemma: because the issues of access and ghettoization affect the visibility and survival of Asian American--or any marginalized--literature, they must be addressed.

When identity meets diversity

In early sections it lays out the analytical arguments on ghettoization and the effects of the Great Migration.

Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression: Philadelphia's African Methodists and Southern Migrants, 1890-1940

Since the publication of Black Milwaukee, several other studies have deepened our understanding of the inter-relationship of migration, urbanization, ghettoization and proletarianization.

Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers

policies of closure, separation, isolation, checkpoints, ghettoization and curfews;

Declassified Documents Expose Lobby Influence

The more that mosques and madrasas can be plugged into mainstream society, raising the aspirations of the young Muslims that attend them and providing key life skills, the greater the chances of preventing the mental and physical ghettoization which has afflicted some British and European Muslim communities, and of contributing to improved levels of education and professional advancement.

Madrasas can raise aspirations for young British Muslims

The same fate has been made for Palestinians living along the wall's route, fighting ghettoization and annexation of their land.

Leading Stop the Wall activists released from jail

In the East, by contrast, the robbery often unfolded openly and in direct connection with the military advances, ghettoization, and mass murder of the Jewish population in the Nazi death camps.

Robbing the Jew: The Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust, 1933-1945

The authors include an insider's view of deportation and ghettoization, the death marches, life inside the concentration camps such as Auschwitz, liberation and the Nuremberg Trials.

Daily life during the Holocaust, 2d ed

Rejected Stones" touched on Durham's central preoccupations, such as the construction of history, the struggle of art and poetry against analytic language, and the ghettoization of indigenous culture.

Jimmie Durham: Musee d'art Moderne de La Ville de Paris / ARC

Ghettoization may thus be read as a means of resolving this contradiction by transferring Jews from Christian space to a quasi-parochial place of their own.

The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence: The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community

I suppose the reason is that it implies a ghettoization of what we like to call the gay "community," and risks alienating some readers while catering to others.