Ghettoization failed to erase minorities and instead preserved their cultures

Evidence

But the project of ghettoization failed because the ghetto preserves minorities as minorities and enables their cultures to flourish. Although the ghetto was for many immigrants the stepping-stone on which, or “decompression chamber” through which, they assimilated and passed into the larger society, for others it has provided a context in which they could maintain a sense of their old identity, traditions, and language. Furthermore, these ethnic minorities were not passive. They used the space of the ghetto to develop their own organizations and counterculture. “Ghetto” has come to signify a whole style of being black in the United States including a form of dress and dialect. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2392

Categorization

• SEED: The ghetto as ‘decompression chamber’ vs. ‘preserver of identity’ — an essay on how intended exclusion zones become incubators of culture and resistance.
• XREF: Connects to the theme of segregation functioning as white control in Parable of the Sower, and to bell hooks’ work on margins as sites of resistance. — connects to: Formal law fails against minority cultural practices that resist it — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 1434