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

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

Mitchell Duneier

304 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history race sociology reflective slow-paced
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A five-hundred-year story of exclusion and containment, from the first Jewish ghetto to the presentOn March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in a closed quarter, il geto—named for the copper foundry that on...

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