How America's Ugly History of Segregation Changed the Meaning of the Word 'Ghetto'

Today, for many Americans, the word “ghetto” conjures images of run-down and crime-ridden African American segregated ...
Today

The words ‘ghetto’ and ‘hood’ were once looked down upon. Now, Black chefs are reclaiming them

In his smash debut album “Long. Live. ASAP,” musician A$AP Rocky raps about being in the pages of Vogue in his track “Ghetto Symphony.” In the remix to Doja ...
National Catholic Reporter

Ghetto asserts complicity of white Americans

Recent confrontations between police and African-Americans in Northern cities may alert white liberals that racism is not bound by the Mason-Dixon Line. Though Northern liberals may have condescended ...
Publishers Weekly

Staff Pick: 'Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea' by Mitchell Duneier

During the March 6th Democratic primary debate in Flint, MI, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders remarked that white people “don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto.” The statement ...
The Nation

Stuck in ‘Ghetto’

Kenneth B. Clark at the North Side Center for Child Development, Harlem, November 9, 1965. (AP) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...