Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea by Duneier, Mitchell
Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea by Duneier, Mitchell

Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea

A New York Times Notable Book of 2016 Winner of the Z calo Public Square Book Prize...
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Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea by Duneier, Mitchell

Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea

$48.89
Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea by Duneier, Mitchell

Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea

$48.89
Author: Mitchell Duneier
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2016
Winner of the Z calo Public Square Book Prize

On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto--a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck.

In this sweeping and original account, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the sixteenth century and its revival by the Nazis to the present. As Duneier shows, we cannot comprehend the entanglements of race, poverty, and place in America today without recalling the ghettos of Europe, as well as earlier efforts to understand the problems of the American city.

Ghetto is the story of the scholars and activists who tried to achieve that understanding. As Duneier shows, their efforts to wrestle with race and poverty cannot be divorced from their individual biographies, which often included direct encounters with prejudice and discrimination in the academy and elsewhere. Using new and forgotten sources, Duneier introduces us to Horace Cayton and St. Clair Drake, graduate students whose conception of the South Side of Chicago established a new paradigm for thinking about Northern racism and poverty in the 1940s. We learn how the psychologist Kenneth Clark subsequently linked Harlem's slum conditions with the persistence of black powerlessness, and we follow the controversy over Daniel Patrick Moynihan's report on the black family. We see how the sociologist William Julius Wilson redefined the debate about urban America as middle-class African Americans increasingly escaped the ghetto and the country retreated from racially specific remedies. And we trace the education reformer Geoffrey Canada's efforts to transform the lives of inner-city children with ambitious interventions, even as other reformers sought to help families escape their neighborhoods altogether.

Duneier offers a clear-eyed assessment of the thinkers and doers who have shaped American ideas about urban poverty--and the ghetto. The result is a valuable new estimation of an age-old concept.

Author: Mitchell Duneier
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 03/21/2017
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780374536770


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About the Author
Mitchell Duneier is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and the author of the award-winning urban ethnographies Slim's Table and Sidewalk.
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