LekhoriLekhoriAn (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.
The Venetian ghetto, according to Sennett, was to provide protection from the unclean bodies of the Jews and their sullying touch. The Roman ghetto, on the other hand, was planned as an area for mission. It was supposed to collect the Jews in one place, so that it would be easier to convert them.
An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
Charlestown would also become one of Boston's three large Irish ghettoes.
An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
Counterhegemonic spaces imagined as bounded territories ensure that heteronormativity is fixed beyond the borders of the gay ghetto. The rural and suburban lives of lesbian and gay people are made invisible and signified as inauthentic.
Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
Those residing in ghetto communities were particularly ill equipped to adapt to the seismic changes taking place in the U.S. economy; they were left isolated and jobless.
Borrowed from the name of the Venetian Ghetto, whose etymology and original source language is uncertain. Compare Italian ghetto.
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Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
My apartment's so ghetto, the rats and cockroaches filed a complaint with the city!
Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
The music I liked was very ghetto and gritty. It was the stuff that didn't really cross over much, but spoke to a roots black experience. People don't understand this now, but the falsetto, crying singers were the most ghetto back then.