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Oxford University Press The Ghetto A Very Short Introduction by Bryan Cheyette
Ghetto' is an extraordinarily complex word that encompasses Jewish history, black experiences in northern America, and our contemporary sense of cities and countries segregated by race and class. Exploring the various identities and uses of ghettos, Bryan Cheyette shows how different instances of ghettoization interrelate across time and space.Covers the varying histories of different kinds of ghettos - urban, racial, and colonialConsiders the identity of the people in ghettos, and why and how ghetto communities are formedAnalyses the appearance of ghettos in popular cultureShows how both the experience of ghettoization and the memory of ghettos impacts people living in themPart of the Very Short Introductions series - over ten million copies sold worldwide