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Reconsidering the “Ghetto”1

Reconsidering the “Ghetto”1 Symposium on the Ghetto The Ghetto: Origins, History, Discourse By Bruce Haynes, University of California, Davis, and Ray Hutchison, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay Nearly a decade into the new millennium, many traditionally black ghettos like Harlem, the Fillmore, and Chicago’s South Side have experienced declining popu- lation and gentrification. Now seems like a fitting time to evaluate the conceptual merits of the term and the trajectory of research on the “ghetto.” Much of the re- search on poverty neighborhoods focuses on Chicago—but is Chicago’s South Side representative of poverty neighborhoods (and ghettos) in other cities? Recently, this issue has been widely discussed on the Community and Urban Sociology listserve; as a follow-up, we invited an international group of scholars to offer their views on the subject in this Symposium on the ghetto. The Jewish community in Venice dates back to 1382, when the Venetian government first authorized Jews to live in the city; the first residents were money lenders and business- men. The enclosure of the Jews came after an outbreak of syphilis—a disease introduced from the New World that had no certain name, diagnosis, or treatment—said to be linked to the arrival of the so-called Marrani Jews http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Community (Fixed 2) SAGE

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© 2008 American Sociological Association
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1535-6841
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10.1111/j.1540-6040.2008.00271_7.x
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Symposium on the Ghetto The Ghetto: Origins, History, Discourse By Bruce Haynes, University of California, Davis, and Ray Hutchison, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay Nearly a decade into the new millennium, many traditionally black ghettos like Harlem, the Fillmore, and Chicago’s South Side have experienced declining popu- lation and gentrification. Now seems like a fitting time to evaluate the conceptual merits of the term and the trajectory of research on the “ghetto.” Much of the re- search on poverty neighborhoods focuses on Chicago—but is Chicago’s South Side representative of poverty neighborhoods (and ghettos) in other cities? Recently, this issue has been widely discussed on the Community and Urban Sociology listserve; as a follow-up, we invited an international group of scholars to offer their views on the subject in this Symposium on the ghetto. The Jewish community in Venice dates back to 1382, when the Venetian government first authorized Jews to live in the city; the first residents were money lenders and business- men. The enclosure of the Jews came after an outbreak of syphilis—a disease introduced from the New World that had no certain name, diagnosis, or treatment—said to be linked to the arrival of the so-called Marrani Jews

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