Ghettos

Ghetto, the word so frequently and severely misused due to the lack of attention to its historical and social contexts. A word with a bevy of associations due to some of the characteristics of a ghetto. A ghetto arises partially due to the forced spatial enclosure of the group through de jure or de facto segregation, yet the enclosed group is ridiculed for something they have no control over. Effectively, the lack of information contributes to mindsets and behaviors that instill a prejudicial behavior

Nicole, I really enjoyed your post. The word ghetto stems from when European cities in which the Jews were restricted, and later used to describe a slum section of an American city, predominantly occupied by a minority group who live under social and economic pressures. The word represents an institutional and historical basis of racial exclusion. The word ghetto also has a particular racial component, and defines those associated with the word as being represented by social isolation, residential

Jewish ghettos: The basic history of the formation of the Jewish ghettos, including the everyday life and economic hardships faced by the communities.      By definition, a ghetto is an area, usually characterized by poverty and poor living conditions, which houses many people of a similar religion, race or nationality. They served to confine these groups of people and isolate them from the rest of the community because of political or social differences. However, the Jewish

Ghetto, is a well-written compilation of our histories best sociologists and their experiences, views, and ideas of the well know European and American ghettos. This book looks deeply into the invention of the Jewish ghettos back in Italy in the 1500’s, Jewish ghettos in the World War II era, and the black ghettos of Chicago, Harlem, and other large cities in the early 1940’s through our current period. The author, Mitchell Duneier, took the work of some of the world’s most renowned artifacts of

Definition of Ghetto The word Ghetto is a term that is used to describe where a person is from, or the type of person they are. All around the world the word ghetto is used, and all around the world it has the same negative meaning. Mostly a derogatory word to some, but to others ghetto is a word of pride and respect in the streets. It’s a word loosely used among younger individuals to identify where they are from, or the type of lifestyle they live. In “I was a member of the King Fu Crew”, Henry

“The first girl I ever made love to, she was ghetto as hell.” - Kyle Grooms Centuries ago the word ghetto did not quite have the same meaning as it does now. It is an Etymological mystery… Did it come from hebrew? Or was it Ghektes, which is the Yiddish word for “enclosed”? From the Italian borghetto, “little town”? Or possibly even the Venetian foundry? Whatever the other meanings may be, the original creation of the word was in the 17th century when it was used to refer to the quarter in

With the abundance of government programs available to the ghettos are often misused and of course are abused by those trying to avoid working or by others who really do not need such services. With those problems plentiful the government should enforce a checks and balances program to make sure such programs are not abused and if so penalize the abusers by reducing benefits, force “persuade” them to return to work, or cut them off from benefits immediately which would seem very harsh for their families

Behind the Walls of the Ghetto      Commenting on the famed Los Angeles ghetto in which he grew up, gangster rapper Ice Cube asserts, “If you ain’t never been to the ghetto, don’t ever come to the ghetto” (Cube, Ghetto Vet). But why are American ghettos filled with so much violence, drugs, and inopportunity? In John Singleton’s powerful drama Boyz N the Hood the harsh reality of youths growing up in South Central Los Angeles, a place where drive-by shootings and unemployment

central Bohemian Mountains Hitler pinpointed the small town of Theresienstadt to be his paradise ghetto, his “gift�.

also known as ghettos and were later transferred to the death camps. The ghettos could be described as the Jewish city districts in which the Jews were meant to live in order to be separated from the Non-Jewish population. One of the biggest types of ghettos was the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland where more than 400,000 Jews were crowded into an area of 1.3 square miles and were living in harsh conditions. This was established On October 12 1940 after the decree the establishment of a ghetto in Warsaw. All