As a concept, policy, and experience, the ghetto has served to maintain social, religious, and racial hierarchies over the past five centuries. The volume is structured around four main case studies, covering the first ghettos created for Jews in early modern Europe, the Nazi use of ghettos, the enclosure of African Americans in segregated areas in the U.S., and the extreme segregation of blacks in South Africa. Geographically and chronologically wide-ranging, The Ghetto in Global History will prove indispensable reading for all those interested in the history of spatial segregation, power dynamics, and racial and religious relations across the globe.…mehr
As a concept, policy, and experience, the ghetto has served to maintain social, religious, and racial hierarchies over the past five centuries. The volume is structured around four main case studies, covering the first ghettos created for Jews in early modern Europe, the Nazi use of ghettos, the enclosure of African Americans in segregated areas in the U.S., and the extreme segregation of blacks in South Africa. Geographically and chronologically wide-ranging, The Ghetto in Global History will prove indispensable reading for all those interested in the history of spatial segregation, power dynamics, and racial and religious relations across the globe.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Wendy Z. Goldman is Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, United States. She is a social and political historian of Russia, and her publications include Hunger and War: Food Provisioning in the Soviet Union During World War II (2015, ed. with Donald Filtzer), Inventing the Enemy: Denunciation and Terror in Stalin's Russia (2011), Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression (2007), and Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia (2002). Joe William Trotter, Jr. is Giant Eagle Professor of History and Social Justice and past History Department Chair at Carnegie Mellon University, United States. He also directs Carnegie Mellon's Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE) and is a past president of the Labor and Working Class History Association. His publications include Race and Renaissance: African Americans in Pittsburgh Since World War II (2010, co-authored with Jared N. Day), Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45 (second edition, 2007), and The African American Urban Experience: From the Colonial Era to the Present, with Earl Lewis and Tera W. Hunter (2004).
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List of figures List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: The Ghetto Made and Remade Wendy Z. Goldman and Joe W. Trotter Part I: The Early Modern Jewish Ghetto 1 - Ghetto: Etymology, Original Definition, Reality, and Diffusion Benjamin Ravid 2 - The End to Confessionalism: Jews, Law, and the Roman Ghetto Kenneth Stow 3 - The Early Modern Ghetto: A Study in Urban Real Estate Bernard Cooperman 4 - Venice: A Culture of Enclosure, a Culture of Control. The Creation of the Ghetto in the Context of Early Cinquecento Samuel D. Gruber Part II: Nazi Ghettos 5 - "There was no work, we only worked for the Germans": Ghettos and Ghetto labor in German-occupied Soviet territories Anika Walke 6 - Hunger in the Ghettos Helene Sinnreich 7 - Am I My Brother's Keeper? Jewish Committees in the Ghettos of the Mogilev district and the Romanian authorities in Transnistria, 1941 to 1944 Gali Mir-Tibon 8 - Jewish Resistance in Ghettos in the former Soviet Union during the Holocaust Zvi Gitelman and Lenore J. Weitzman 9 - When (and why) is a ghetto not a "ghetto"? Concentrating and Segregating Jews in Budapest, 1944 Tim Cole Part III: U.S. and African American Ghettos 10 - Shifting "Ghettos": Established Jews, Jewish Immigrants and African-Americans in Chicago 1880-1960 Tobias Brinkman 11 - "Is a Negro district, in the midst of our fairest cities, to become connotative of the ghetto...?": Using Corpus Analysis to Trace the "Ghetto" in the Black Press, 1900-1930 Avigail Oren 12 - Constrained But Not Contained: Patterns of Everyday Life and the Limits of Segregation in 1920s Harlem Stephen Robertson 13 - The American Ghetto as an International Human Rights Crisis: The Fight Against Racial Restrictive Covenants, 1945-1948 Jeffrey Gonda 14 - Unmaking the Ghetto: Community Development and Persistent Social Inequality in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia Brian Purnell Part IV: Urban Locations, Apartheid, and the Ghetto in Southern Africa 15 - "Their World Was a Ghetto:" Space, Power and Identity in Alexandra, South Africa's Squatters' Movement, 1946-47 Dawne Curry 16 - Citizens, not Subjects: Spatial Segregation and the Making of Durban's African Working Class Alex Lichtenstein 17 - Location Culture in South Africa Gavin Steingo Conclusion: Common Themes and New Directions Wendy Z. Goldman and Joe W. Trotter Index
List of figures List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: The Ghetto Made and Remade Wendy Z. Goldman and Joe W. Trotter Part I: The Early Modern Jewish Ghetto 1 - Ghetto: Etymology, Original Definition, Reality, and Diffusion Benjamin Ravid 2 - The End to Confessionalism: Jews, Law, and the Roman Ghetto Kenneth Stow 3 - The Early Modern Ghetto: A Study in Urban Real Estate Bernard Cooperman 4 - Venice: A Culture of Enclosure, a Culture of Control. The Creation of the Ghetto in the Context of Early Cinquecento Samuel D. Gruber Part II: Nazi Ghettos 5 - "There was no work, we only worked for the Germans": Ghettos and Ghetto labor in German-occupied Soviet territories Anika Walke 6 - Hunger in the Ghettos Helene Sinnreich 7 - Am I My Brother's Keeper? Jewish Committees in the Ghettos of the Mogilev district and the Romanian authorities in Transnistria, 1941 to 1944 Gali Mir-Tibon 8 - Jewish Resistance in Ghettos in the former Soviet Union during the Holocaust Zvi Gitelman and Lenore J. Weitzman 9 - When (and why) is a ghetto not a "ghetto"? Concentrating and Segregating Jews in Budapest, 1944 Tim Cole Part III: U.S. and African American Ghettos 10 - Shifting "Ghettos": Established Jews, Jewish Immigrants and African-Americans in Chicago 1880-1960 Tobias Brinkman 11 - "Is a Negro district, in the midst of our fairest cities, to become connotative of the ghetto...?": Using Corpus Analysis to Trace the "Ghetto" in the Black Press, 1900-1930 Avigail Oren 12 - Constrained But Not Contained: Patterns of Everyday Life and the Limits of Segregation in 1920s Harlem Stephen Robertson 13 - The American Ghetto as an International Human Rights Crisis: The Fight Against Racial Restrictive Covenants, 1945-1948 Jeffrey Gonda 14 - Unmaking the Ghetto: Community Development and Persistent Social Inequality in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia Brian Purnell Part IV: Urban Locations, Apartheid, and the Ghetto in Southern Africa 15 - "Their World Was a Ghetto:" Space, Power and Identity in Alexandra, South Africa's Squatters' Movement, 1946-47 Dawne Curry 16 - Citizens, not Subjects: Spatial Segregation and the Making of Durban's African Working Class Alex Lichtenstein 17 - Location Culture in South Africa Gavin Steingo Conclusion: Common Themes and New Directions Wendy Z. Goldman and Joe W. Trotter Index
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