Citations:ghetto

a quarter where Jews were confined in Europe pre-1930s

 * 1983, Steven E. Aschheim, Brothers and Strangers: : The East European Jew in German and German Jewish Consciousness, 1800-1923 ISBN 0299091147, page 45:
 * The Berlin ghetto reinforced the Germanness of German Jews and strengthened the stereotype of the Ostjude. Of course, the stereotype blurred a reality that was far more complex.


 * 1989, in Gardens and ghettos: the art of Jewish life in Italy ISBN 0520068254, page 270:
 * This mantle, which comes from the Sicilian Synagogue in the Roman ghetto, is the result of the recomposition of a suit, the parts of which were skillfully put together to form the mantle.


 * 2006, Stefanie Beth Siegmund, The Medici state and the ghetto of Florence: The construction of an early modern Jewish community ISBN 0-8047-5078-5


 * 2009, Barbara Engelking-Boni, Jacek Leociak, The Warsaw ghetto: a guide to the perished city ISBN 0300112343, page 25:
 * The Venetian ghetto, according to Sennett, was to provide protection from the unclean bodies of the Jews and their sullying touch. The Roman ghetto, on the other hand, was planned as an area for mission. It was supposed to collect the Jews in one place, so that it would be easier to convert them.

a quarter where Jews were confined in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s

 * 1998, Israel Gutman, Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ISBN 0395901308


 * 2001, Walter Laqueur, Judith Tydor Baumel, The Holocaust Encyclopedia ISBN 0300084323, page 74:
 * The elderly, who lived in appalling conditions in the Berlin ghetto, were ostensibly sold beds in a nursing home.


 * 2010, Mike Lindner, Leaving Terror Behind: A Boy's Journey to Painting Over the Past ISBN 1615664149, page 49:
 * concentrating the Jewish community into ghettoes. The Germans not only started the ghettoes, but they had also opened a concentration camp

an Irish quarter in the US

 * 1998, Steven J. L. Taylor, Desegregation in Boston and Buffalo: The Influence of Local Leaders ISBN 0791439194, page 15:
 * Charlestown would also become one of Boston's three large Irish ghettoes.

a black quarter in the US

 * 1981, E. Victor Wolfenstein, The Victims of Democracy: Malcolm X and the Black Revolution ISBN 0520039033, page 16:
 * There are, after all, no ghetto rebellions without ghettoes. The great sin of the white liberals and Negro leaders was their attempt to ignore the ghettoes, to perpetuate the myth that freedom could be found north of the Mason-Dixon line.


 * 1998, Arnold R. Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 ISBN 0226342441, page 253:
 * By 1960 the growth and development of Chicago's black areas of residence confirmed the existence of the city's second ghetto.

gay ghetto: a gay quarter (region where gay people concentrate or are concentrated)

 * 2000, Michael Bronski, The Pleasure Principle: Sex, Backlash, and the Struggle for Gay Freedom, page 210:
 * sidewalk use is an essential prerequisite for community safety, and nowhere was this more true than in the gay ghetto.


 * 2006, Gay tourism: culture and context (Gordon Waitt, Kevin Markwell, ISBN 0789016036, page 201:
 * Counterhegemonic spaces imagined as bounded territories ensure that heteronormativity is fixed beyond the borders of the gay ghetto. The rural and suburban lives of lesbian and gay people are made invisible and signified as inauthentic.


 * 2001, Censored 2010: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008-09 ISBN 1609800524, page 376:
 * The film [Broken Hearts Club] depicts a complicated, multidimensional view of the gay ghetto, acknowledging its affirming and non-affirming qualities.

student ghetto: residential area close to a college or uni that houses mainly students

 * 2007, Romania & Moldova (Robert Reid, Leif Pettersen, ISBN 1741044782, page 190:
 * The student ghetto, southwest of the centre, is inside the triangle formed by [three streets] and is full of open-air bars, internet cafés, fast-food shops — and students.


 * 2011, McGill University 2012: Off the Record (Kelly Baker, Robin Erskine-Levinson, ISBN 1427404933:
 * It depends where you look - the student ghetto is overpriced for proximity, and the apartments aren't that great.


 * 2001, Justin Taylor, The Gospel of Anarchy: A Novel ISBN 0061881821, page 64:
 * They're back in the student ghetto now, on oak-shaded streets lined with run-down houses filled with nonnuclear families of all varieties and kinds. Safe now from the tractor beams of the horrible good Christians,

musical ghetto: specialist sub-genres of music

 * 2016 January 10, Quentin Tarantino, 73rd Golden Globe Awards
 * Ennio Morricone... is my favourite composer - and when I say favourite composer, I don't mean movie composer - that ghetto. I'm talking about Mozart, I'm talking about Beethoven, I'm talking about Schubert. That's who I'm talking about.

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 * 1985, in Mainstreaming: feminist research for teaching religious studies (Arlene Swidler, Walter E. Conn), page 81:
 * When we split the human molecule and relegated women to truncated personhood, we also ghettoed the qualities associated with woman. (A pedestal is a clean ghetto.)

of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude








characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a black or other ghetto in the United States












ghetto : make (into or like) a ghetto

 * 2010, Joshua Ferris, The Unnamed ISBN 0316034010:
 * Eroded brick surfaces, dull and defaced, ghettoed the neighborhood. Wind picked up the trash. The chain-link fence to a barren lot was curled up at one corner like a pried-open sardine can.

ghetto : confine [blacks, Jews, etc] to a ghetto

 * 1964, James A. Atkins, The age of Jim Crow, page 274:
 * This is, in brief, a part of the story of the ghettoing of a large segment of Denver's Negro population.


 * 2001, Paul Johnson, Modern Times Revised Edition: World from the Twenties to the Nineties ISBN 0060935502, page 526:
 * All African states practised racist policies. In the 1950s and 1960s, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia expelled more than a quarter of a million Jews and ghettoed the few thousand who remained. In the 1960s the United Republic of Tanzania expelled its Arabs or deprived them of equal rights.


 * 1991, Nathan Miller, FDR, an intimate history ISBN 0819180610, page 319:
 * and in Germany, Adolf Hitler, voted absolute power by the Reichstag, had launched a rearmament program in violation of the Versailles Treaty and was ghettoing the nation's Jewish citizens.


 * 2008, someone, quoted by Patrick French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul ISBN 1400044057, page 137:
 * But, like me, he had the opportunity—to starve. He was ghettoed—in a sense more cruel than that in which Hitler ghettoed the Jews. But there was an element of rude honesty in the Nazi approach; and they at any rate killed swiftly.

ghetto : confine [Catholics, Protestants] (to a ghetto-like geographical area)

 * 1968, in the Parliamentary debates of the House of Commons, volumes 70-71, page 335:
 * That might have been the case 40 years ago when the demarcation line, so to speak, was drawn by the police of that time—a line which ghettoed the people of Newry into two camps, a Catholic area and a Protestant area.

ghetto : confine [people of India] (to a ghetto-like non-geographical 'space')

 * 1961, Rajendra Singh, Far east in ferment, page 238:
 * What the British gave with the right hand they stealthily took away with the left, by ghettoing the Indian Commissioned Officers to selected units where they could fight among themselves for securing the few places for promotion

ghetto : ??? (1)

 * 1966, in the Law in Transition quarterly, volume 3, page 42:
 * The poor schooling, the "last hired, first fired" application of economics and the petty annoyances of curb-walking, sirring and ghettoing are precisely the personal affronts which cause emotional rather than reasoned choices.

ghetto : ??? (2) [blacks]

 * 2001, Pauline Schloesser, The Fair Sex: White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic ISBN 0814797636, page 36:
 * The ghettoing of the black urban labor market combined with the segregated professional sector obviously marked a racial division of labor.

ghetto : to confine (or banish?) [something intangible] (?)

 * 1985, in Mainstreaming: feminist research for teaching religious studies (Arlene Swidler, Walter E. Conn), page 81:
 * When we split the human molecule and relegated women to truncated personhood, we also ghettoed the qualities associated with woman. (A pedestal is a clean ghetto.)


 * 1986, in Films and Filming, issues 375-387, page 22:
 * No one will be able to see everything (even if they wanted to) and Malcolm has continued his open-door policy of catering for all tastes (conventional and unconventional) and not ghettoing the films by region or genre.


 * 1991, in Kidz TV: an inquiry into children's and preschool children's television, volume 1, page 106:
 * and the reason for choosing the 4.00 p.m.-5.00 p.m. time slot (based on premise that majority of audience are viewers within the C age range); the set C time has apparently had the effect of ‘ghettoing’ the 4.00 p.m.- 5.00 p.m. time slot.

ghetto up : make [a place] like a ghetto?

 * 2006, Miles Marshall Lewis, Bronx Biannual ISBN 1933354046, page 33:
 * The buses back home there seemed most useful in ghettoing up the whole town, and I don't mean that in a good way. Exhaust for days. Homeless, drunk muhfuckas. Just the whole unwieldiness of buses fucks me up like the worst parts of the hood.