Ghetto
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What’s it about?
An intellectual history of the ghetto, tracing its invention in 16th-century Venice to its role as a racial and economic prison in modern America.
You’ll learn
- The ghetto is a deliberate social invention
- How the term shifted from Jewish to Black
- Why public housing projects failed
- The debate over culture vs. structure