Ghetto: The History Of A Word

Few words are as ideologically charged as “ghetto,” a term that has described legally segregated Jewish quarters, dense immigrant enclaves, Nazi holding pens, and black neighborhoods in the United States. Daniel B. Schwartz reveals how the history of ghettos is tied up with struggle and argument over the slippery meaning of a word.

• | Author: Daniel B. Schwartz
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674737539
• | ISBN-13: 9780674737532