Ghettoization both results from and perpetuates racism through ignorance

Evidence

By an extraordinary reversal, numerous members of the white majority declare they do not “feel” safe in large sections of the city, including downtown. The gated communities of the rich are the mirror image of the ghettos. Their determination to live away from the city, in districts where their neighbors resemble them financially and ethnically, has the effect of maintaining residential segregation along racial, ethnic, and class lines. If racism and ethnocentrism created the ghetto, one effect of ghettoization is that it means that members of the dominant group remain ignorant of ethnic minorities, leading to a lack of appreciation of their culture and problems, as well as a persistence of stereotyping. The ghetto as an effect of racism contributes to the persistence of racism. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2394

Categorization

• XREF: The feedback loop of segregation producing the fear that justifies more segregation connects to the ‘gated communities’ dynamics in Parable of the Sower. — connects to: Suburban racial innocence made government housing segregation almost unthinkable as a personal concern — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 42
• QUESTION: The claim that dominant-group ignorance of minorities persists because of ghettoization — does this hold given media saturation of ghetto imagery?