Voluntary ghettos remain impositions on long-enclosed people

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 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Voluntary ghettos persist because residents cannot step out of internalized segregation. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2381; Formal ghettos dissolved yet the word and clustering endured; Medieval Jewish ghettos were spatial isolation with protective and oppressive dual effects (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Ghettoization failed to erase minorities and instead preserved their cultures #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2392