Aided by the mass media and popular culture, this image of the ghetto has achieved an iconic status, and serves as a powerful source of stereotype, prejudice, and discrimination.

This explanation of ghetto rents andslum conditions is fundamentally related to the dictates of hecapitalist rules of the game operating upon all enterprises as much a upon the slum landlord.

Ghetto, in slang usage, has entirely lost the sense of forced segregation — the meaning it held for centuries. In a rapid about-face, it's become an indictment of individual choices.

Recent work in sociology has attempted to transcend the behavior-versus-structure debate by carefully demonstrating the subtle interaction between structural and cultural factors in the explanation of …

The term ghetto is one such word. Ghetto is a word that was historically connected to European Jews who were often forced to live in ethnically homogenous enclaves referred to as ghettoes.

In this study, we use data from the Multi-City Survey of Urban Inequality to examine this hypothesis, focusing on the use and return to various modes of job matching among blacks and Lat-inos in …

In this paper, we examine the birth and development of ghettos in twentieth-century America.