Ghettoes

Most Jews were supposed to live in ghettoes in Russia, which ruled Ukraine. ❋ Stuart Jeffries (2010)

Is it troubling that Abba, Vitka, and Ruzka left members of their own families behind in ghettoes that would eventually be taken by the Nazis? ❋ Unknown (2000)

And if their need is great-if in ghettoes and concentration camps, on homeless vessels wandering the seas and on the Shanghai waterfront they suffer-their influence for good in the troubled affairs of the nations at this time is also very great. ❋ Unknown (1939)

The segregation of voters into ghettoes is required by one of the Democrats’ favorite laws: the Voting Rights Act. They well and truly hosed themselves here. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She will lampoon "Cameron's stupendously inane soundbite about a security fightback being followed by a social fightback" and claim the prime minister's vision for dealing with socially excluded people is "the idea of ghettoes, where the undeserving poor can be kept and contained through heavy policing, CCTV surveillance and the use of benefits as a stick to intimidate." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Aimed at black audiences, blaxploitation movies with their violent tales of drugs and crime in the ghettoes were a creation of the early 1970s. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the northern states, blacks were generally permitted to vote and had access to most public accommodations, but were forced by racial covenants and restrictive laws to live in ghettoes. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Italy is the only country in Europe outside those in the Eastern part where the so-called ghettoes are populated by native Jews. ❋ Various (N/A)

You mean there are to be "no go" areas or "ghettoes" where Jews are to be forbidden to own land in these areas? ❋ Unknown (2008)

There was a risk that some areas would seem like "ghettoes" compared to others, he said, although this was not necessarily a bad thing as it would create pressure on politicians to spend money on improving the worse-off areas. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Tory proposals aim to eliminate council estate 'ghettoes' in the biggest revolution in social housing since Baroness Thatcher gave tenants the 'right to buy', reports the Daily Mail. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In fact, one could go so far as to say that subcultures (or "ghettoes") are "included" in capitalist discourse precisely through their exclusion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is probably true that integration only occurs when there is a decentralisation from the 'ghettoes' but it's equally true that a hostile atmosphere can slow down the rate of decentralisation and integration because of fear of how they will be treated if they do move to a more affluent area. ❋ Unknown (2009)

During this time, a Swedish social scientist named Gunnar Myrdal was traveling through the ghettoes of American cities conducting field research for a study that would solve the American race problem once and for all. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

It has become an article of increasing faith and fashion in contemporary SF that happy endings lack sophistication and hence are fit to appear only in such déclassé subgenre ghettoes as - horrors! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Of her, he says, "As if the authors can already scent the whiff of decay rising from their chosen genre some recent books have started throwing in elements from other mini-ghettoes; Cherie Priest's Boneshaker added zombies to the mix, and is highly regarded by people who don't seem to care that it is itself a kind of literary zombie." ❋ Lou Anders (2010)

Blacks not only brought their muscle and creative talents to the North but also, as some highly touted studies contend, distinct and dysfunctional behaviors that created the intractable poverty and crime that turned cities into ghettoes. ❋ Paula J. Giddings (2010)