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Covers the varying histories of different kinds of ghettos - urban, racial, and colonial.

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'Ghetto' is an extraordinarily complex word that encompasses Jewish history, black experiences in northern America, and our contemporary sense of cities and countries segregated by race and class. Exploring the various identities and uses of ghettos, Bryan Cheyette shows how different instances of ghettoization interrelate across time and space.
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Preface and Acknowledgments List of illustrations 1: Why ghetto? 2: The age of the ghetto 3: Ghettos of the Imagination 4: Nazism and the ghetto 5: The americanization of the ghetto 6: Global ghettos References Further reading Publishers acknowledgements