Ghetto: The History of a Word

Ghetto: The History of a Word
ISBN-10
0674737539
ISBN-13
9780674737532
Category
History
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2019-09-24
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Daniel B. Schwartz

Description

Few words are as ideologically charged as “ghetto,” a term that has described legally segregated Jewish quarters, dense immigrant enclaves, Nazi holding pens, and black neighborhoods in the United States. Daniel B. Schwartz reveals how the history of ghettos is tied up with struggle and argument over the slippery meaning of a word.

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