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is a social atrocity. It is a place where people are forced to live. The ghettos should not be rebuilt. They must be destroyed. Today, ghetto living is imposed upon the negro, contributing to the cry for 'black power' and what is called the politics of frustration.

The ghetto is a social atrocity. It is a place where people are forced to live. It is unbelievable to me that liberal leaders can speak of 'rebuilding' ghettos. They must be destroyed. If a Negro wants to live in Harlem, great, he should have that choice. If he wants to get out, he should have that choice, too. Today, ghetto living is imposed upon him. This contributes to things like the cry for 'black power' and what is called the politics of frustration. DAVIDOFF, Paul (1930 )

can be improved in one way only: by pushing it out of existence. 

A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence. Nobody Knows My Name BALDWIN, James (1924 )

is a place where any cat with a tail is a tourist.

a place where any cat with a tail is a tourist.

is an isolated enclave populated by kindred types who would be made to feel unwelcome outside its boundaries; e.g., blacks in 1920s Harlem, Jews in 1930s Warsaw, women in secretarial pools, or a class of honor students at an urban high school.

An isolated enclave populated by kindred types who 76 TH I CYNIC'S DIC TI 0 NARY would be made to feel unwelcome outside its boundaries; e.g., blacks in 1920s Harlem, Jews in 1930s Warsaw, women in secretarial pools, or a class of honor students at an urban high school.

is wrongly discussed as a black cultural space rather than as a structural formation. It's not the product of street culture and the alternative economies of gangs and guns and drugs and sex trade become described as a black thing rather than a form of deprivation of circumstances.

is nothing but a tolerated corner in a city that belongs to another people.

For what is a ghetto? A tolerated corner in a city that belonged to another people.

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