The Ghetto Contemporary Global Issues and Controversies [Paperback]

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 Dont 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?