1st Edition

The Ghetto Contemporary Global Issues and Controversies

By Ray Hutchison, Bruce D. Haynes Copyright 2012
    384 Pages
    by Routledge

    386 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book discusses more general consideration of marginalized urban spaces and peoples around the globe. It considers the question: Is the formation and later dissolution of the Jewish ghetto an appropriate model for understanding the experience of other ethnic or racial populations?

    Introduction -- A Janus-Faced Institution of Ethnoracial Closure: A Sociological Specification of the Ghetto -- De-spacialization and Dilution of the Ghetto: Current Trends in the United States -- Toward Knowing the Iconic Ghetto -- “You Just Don’t Go Down There”: Learning to Avoid the Ghetto in San Francisco -- In Terms of Harlem -- The Spike Lee Effect: Reimagining the Ghetto for Cultural Consumption -- Places of Stigma:Ghettos, Barrios, and Banlieues -- On the Absence of Ghettos in Latin American Cities -- Divided Cities: Rethinking the Ghetto in Light of the Brazilian Favela -- Demonstrations at Work: Some Notes from Urban Africa AbdouMaliq Simone -- From Refuge the Ghetto is Born: Contemporary Figures of Heterotopias -- Where is the Chicago Ghetto?

    Biography

    Hutchison, Ray | Haynes, Bruce D.