The Ghetto in Global History : 1500 to the Present / Trotter, Jr., Joe William

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 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. Edited By Wendy Z. Goldman And Joe William Trotter, Jr. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 341-345) And Index. "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. "--Provided by publisher Across history the ghetto has served to maintain social, religious, and racial hierarchies. This volume is structured around four case studies: the first ghettos created for Jews in early modern Europe; the Nazi use of ghettos; the enclosure of African Americans in segregated areas in the U.S.; and the segregation of blacks in South Africa.