The ghetto in global history : 1500 to the present / edited by Wendy Z. Goldman and Joe William Trotter, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Goldman, Wendy Z., editor.

Trotter, Joe William, Jr., 1945- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban.

History.

Inner cities.

Inner cities--History.

Sociology, Urban--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 359 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, [2018]

Summary:

The Ghetto in Global History explores the stubborn tenacity of the "ghetto" over time. As a concept, policy, and experience, the ghetto has served to maintain social, religious, and racial hierarchies over the past five centuries. Transnational in scope, this book allows readers to draw thought-provoking comparisons across time and space among ghettos that are not usually studied alongside one another. The volume is structured around four main case studies, covering the first ghettos created for Jews in early modern Europe, the Nazis' use of ghettos, the enclosure of African Americans in segregated areas in the United States, and the extreme segregation of blacks in South Africa. The contributors explore issues of discourse, power, and control; examine the internal structures of authority that prevailed; and document the lived experiences of ghetto inhabitants. By discussing ghettos as both tools of control and as sites of resistance, this book offers an unprecedented and fascinating range of interpretations of the meanings of the "ghetto" throughout history. It allows us to trace the circulation of the idea and practice over time and across continents, revealing new linkages between widely disparate settings. Geographically and chronologically wide-ranging, The Ghetto in Global History will prove indispensable reading for all those interested in the history of spatial segregation, power dynamics, and racial and religious relations across the globe. Book jacket.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction: the ghetto made and remade / Wendy Z. Goldman and Joe W. Trotter

The early modern Jewish ghetto

Ghetto : etymology, original definition, reality, and diffusion / Benjamin Ravid

The end to confessionalism : Jews, law, and the Roman ghetto / Kenneth Stow

The early modern ghetto : a study in urban real estate / Bernard Cooperman

Venice : a culture of enclosure, a culture of control : the creation of the ghetto in the context of early cinquecento / Samuel D. Gruber

Nazi ghettos

"There was no work, we only worked for the Germans" : ghettos and ghetto labor in German-occupied soviet territories / Anika Walke

Hunger in the ghettos / Helene Sinnreich

Am I my brother's keeper? : Jewish committees in the ghettos of the Mogilev district and the Romanian authorities in Transnistria, 1941 to 1944 / Gali Mir-Tibon

Jewish resistance in ghettos in the former Soviet Union during the holocaust / Zvi Gitelman and Lenore J. Weitzman

When (and why) is a ghetto not a "ghetto"? : concentrating and segregating Jews in Budapest, 1944 / Tim Cole

U.S. and African

Shifting "ghettos" : established jews, jewish immigrants and african-americans in chicago 1880-1960 / Tobias Brinkman

"Is a Negro district, in the midst of our fairest cities, to become connotative of the ghetto"? : using corpus analysis to trace the "ghetto" in the black press, 1900-1930 / Avigail Oren

Constrained but not contained : patterns of everyday life and the limits of segregation in 1920s Harlem / Stephen Robertson

The American ghetto as an international human rights crisis : the fight against racial restrictive covenants, 1945-1948 / Jeffrey Gonda

Unmaking the ghetto : community development and persistent social inequality in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia / Brian Purnell

Urban locations, apartheid, and the ghetto in Southern Africa

"Their world was a ghetto" : space, power and identity in Alexandra, South Africa's squatters' movement, 1946-47 / Dawne Curry

Citizens, not subjects : spatial segregation and the making of Durban's African / Working Class

Alex lichtenstein

Location culture in South Africa / Gavin Steingo.

Notes:

Copyright date taken from publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781138282308

1138282308

9781138282292

1138282294

OCLC:

1007495047