ghettos
Impoverished urban enclaves
Ghettos is the plural of ghetto, an area where members of a particular group live, especially due to social, legal, or economic pressure.
Historically, ghettos were Jewish quarters in European cities where Jews were required to live.
The term later applied to impoverished urban neighborhoods, particularly those with predominantly Black or minority populations: riots in the ghettos, growing up in the ghetto.
As an adjective, ghetto describes something cheap, improvised, or associated with urban poverty: That's so ghetto.
State of lacking necessities
- squalorDirty, degraded living conditions
- overcrowdedFilled beyond capacity
- dilapidatedRuined through neglect
- tenementMulti-unit urban dwelling
impoverished · blight · disadvantaged · underprivileged · destitution · hardship · unemployment · welfare
Of a Semitic people
- WarsawPoland's largest city
- NaziGerman fascist party member
- HolocaustNazi genocide of Jews
- VeniceLagoon city, northeastern Italy
Krakow · Lodz · deportation · persecution · antisemitism · resistance · occupation · pogroms
Refusing loans by neighborhood
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
- apartheidRacial separation policy
- racialConcerning ethnic origin
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
exclusion · minorities · enclaves · zoning · blockbusting · white flight · inner city · disenfranchisement
Residential area nearby
- residentsPeople living somewhere
- solidarityUnity among allies
- kinshipState of being related
- survivalRemaining alive against odds
mutual aid · resilience · cultural preservation · identity · inhabitants · tight-knit · collective · grassroots
Surrounded distinct territory
- marginalizationRelegation to powerless periphery
- segregatedForcibly kept separate
- walledSurrounded by barriers
- confinedKept within bounds
barriers · excluded · peripheral · cut-off · insular · separated · cordoned · restricted
deprivation
State of lacking necessities
- squalorDirty, degraded living conditions
- overcrowdedFilled beyond capacity
- dilapidatedRuined through neglect
tenement · impoverished · blight · disadvantaged · underprivileged · destitution · hardship · unemployment · welfare · subsistence
Jewish
Of a Semitic people
Venice · Krakow · Lodz · deportation · persecution · antisemitism · resistance · occupation · pogroms · starvation
redlining
Refusing loans by neighborhood
discrimination · exclusion · minorities · enclaves · zoning · blockbusting · white flight · inner city · disenfranchisement · prejudice
neighborhood
Residential area nearby
- residentsPeople living somewhere
- solidarityUnity among allies
- kinshipState of being related
survival · mutual aid · resilience · cultural preservation · identity · inhabitants · tight-knit · collective · grassroots · fellowship
enclave
Surrounded distinct territory
- marginalizationRelegation to powerless periphery
- segregatedForcibly kept separate
- walledSurrounded by barriers
confined · barriers · excluded · peripheral · cut-off · insular · separated · cordoned · restricted · bounded
- Jewish HistoryHolocaust, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon
- Nazi GermanyAdolf Hitler, Hitler, Nazi, Nazis, Nazi Party
- Ashkenazi historyAshkenazi, Ashkenazi Jews, shtetl, Yiddish, yeshiva
- segregationresidential segregation, redlining, steering, blockbusting, racial covenants
- rough neighborhoodsslums, inner city, public housing, skid row, barrios
- groupsteam, teams, group, club, clubs
ghettosaffluent suburbs
Prosperous areas near cities
gated communities · Beverly Hills · Park Avenue · leafy suburbs
- ghetto blasterLarge portable stereo system
- ghetto lifeExistence in impoverished urban areas
- ghetto fabulousFlashy style despite poverty
- Warsaw GhettoNazi-sealed Jewish district
- Jewish ghettoMandated segregated Jewish district
- ghetto birdLaw enforcement aircraft patrolling
ghetto, ghettoes, ghettoize, ghettoization, ghettoized, ghettoizing, ghettoised