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America’s separate and unequal neighborhoods did not evolve naturally or result from unfettered market forces. Rather, they resulted from plans, policies, and practices of racial exclusion and disinvestment that primarily targeted Black people and laid the foundation for the segregation of other people of color.
- Most areas aren’t technically ghettos. This from a more academic perspective, but scholar Mario Luis Small penned a paper [PDF] arguing that academics should abandon the term to describe urban black poverty, as it is often used.
- The popular concept of “the ghetto” is not typically based in reality. Lynda Laughlin, a family demographer at the U.S. Census Bureau, has pointed out on Greater Greater Washington that many people use the term based on a litany of assumptions, in large part created by popular media depictions.
- “Ghetto” is now often used as a negative adjective, not just a neutral noun. Once, Donny Hathaway soulfully crooned “The Ghetto.” Now, saying “That’s so ghetto” has become as commonplace as “That’s so gay,” and both are disparaging remarks.
- “Ghetto” has also become shorthand for poor and black. One of the more common dictionary definitions for ghetto is “a quarter of a city in which members of a minority group live especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure.”
Dec 12, 2016 · SHELBY: Some among the ghetto poor are keenly aware of the injustices they face. To maintain their self-respect, they often respond by being defiant, by transgressing certain norms, even in how they speak, dress, or style their hair.
Jun 6, 2016 · 1. What racist policies caused. 2. Nothing has changed. 3. Is it that bad? 4. Brain, health, and happiness. 5. Experiment: Let them move. 6. Solutions. So he asked the US Federal Housing...
Ghetto Not-So-Fabulous? Ghettos were always defined by lack of choice — they were places inhabitants were forced to live, whether by anti-Semitic governments, discriminating neighbors or...
Aug 16, 2019 · Back in Europe, “ghetto” was appropriated for the desolate sections of Nazi-occupied cities where Jews were held before being shipped to death camps. Today, Schwartz said, the word is probably most associated with impoverished inner-city African American neighborhoods.
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Mar 3, 1997 · The empirical evidence clearly indicates that ghettos hurt blacks a great deal. Ghetto walls separate residents from mainstream society, from mainstream jobs, and from contact with successful whites and blacks. The suffering is real, as is the resulting crime, disorder, and social distress.
