ghettoizing
Confining to margins
Ghettoizing is confining a group or category to a restricted space or status, either literally or figuratively.
The term derives from ghettos—urban areas where minorities were historically forced to live.
Now it often describes marginalization more broadly: The industry keeps ghettoizing women's sports to off-peak time slots.
To ghettoize something is to treat it as lesser, separate, or unworthy of mainstream attention.
Refusing loans by neighborhood
- apartheidRacial separation policy
- balkanizationDivision into hostile units
- partitioningDividing into sections
- zoningSectioning areas by use
Jim Crow · sundown towns · exclusionary · cordoning · walling off · districting · sectioning · quartering
Being barred from participation
- ostracismBanishment from a group
- alienationState of being isolated
- sideliningRemoving from participation
- relegationAssignment to lower status
disenfranchisement · displacement · pushing out · othering · casting aside · shunting · neglecting · abandoning
Oversimplified group-based judgments
- labelingAssigning identifying markers
- brandingCreating distinctive identity
- demonizingPortraying as evil
- scapegoatingUnfairly assigning fault to innocents
vilifying · dehumanizing · denigrating · shaming · typecasting · pigeonholing · marking · tagging
Forming concentrated groups
- corrallingRounding up animals
- herdingManaging animal groups
- concentratingDirecting mental effort narrowly
- confiningLimiting freedom of movement
containing · cramming · packing · crowding · warehousing · densifying · compacting · penning
Dividing into parts
- insulatingPreventing heat or electricity passage
- quarantiningRestricting contact during illness
- cordoning offEnclosing to restrict access
- sequesteringRemoving from general access
cloistering · siloing · compartmentalizing · cocooning · detaching · disconnecting · cutting off · withdrawing
redlining
Refusing loans by neighborhood
- apartheidRacial separation policy
- balkanizationDivision into hostile units
- partitioningDividing into sections
zoning · Jim Crow · sundown towns · exclusionary · cordoning · walling off · districting · sectioning · quartering · demarcating
exclusion
Being barred from participation
- ostracismBanishment from a group
- alienationState of being isolated
- sideliningRemoving from participation
relegation · disenfranchisement · displacement · pushing out · othering · casting aside · shunting · neglecting · abandoning · forgetting
stereotyping
Oversimplified group-based judgments
- labelingAssigning identifying markers
- brandingCreating distinctive identity
- demonizingPortraying as evil
scapegoating · vilifying · dehumanizing · denigrating · shaming · typecasting · pigeonholing · marking · tagging · profiling
clustering
Forming concentrated groups
- corrallingRounding up animals
- herdingManaging animal groups
- concentratingDirecting mental effort narrowly
confining · containing · cramming · packing · crowding · warehousing · densifying · compacting · penning · encamping
separating
Dividing into parts
- insulatingPreventing heat or electricity passage
- quarantiningRestricting contact during illness
- cordoning offEnclosing to restrict access
sequestering · cloistering · siloing · compartmentalizing · cocooning · detaching · disconnecting · cutting off · withdrawing · secluding
ghettoizingintegrating
Combining into a whole
mainstreaming · desegregating · including · incorporating · assimilating
ghettoizingnormalizing
Making conform to norms
accepting · celebrating · valorizing · centering · empowering
ghettoizingdispersing
Spreading widely apart
spreading · distributing · scattering · intermixing · intermingling
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