| Edition |
First edition |
| Phys Descr |
xii, 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-280) and index |
| Contents |
A Nazi deception -- Chicago, 1944: Horace Cayton -- Harlem, 1965: Kenneth Clark -- Chicago, 1987: William Julius Wilson -- Harlem: 2004: Geoffrey Canada -- The forgotten ghetto |
| Summary |
On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in "il geto"--a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck. In this sweeping and original account, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the sixteenth century and its revival by the Nazis to the present. He argues that we cannot comprehend the entanglements of race, poverty, and place in America today without recalling the ghettos of Europe, as well as earlier efforts to understand the problems of the American city |
| Subject |
Jewish ghettos -- History
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Inner cities -- United States -- History
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Segregation -- History
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| OCLC # |
925426390 |
| ISBN # |
9780374161804 |
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0374161801 |
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9781429942751 |
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1429942754 |
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