Write between 150-200 words comparing and contrasting the two different descriptions of the urban concept, “Ghetto.” Does James Baldwin’s description of life in Harlem add a different understanding of life in “the ghetto” to these encylopedic definitions?
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Although term ghetto is being used frequently in social sciences and in everyday communication, it still isn’t defined precisely. Originally, the term ghetto was first time used in Venice, for part of the city where the Jewish population lived. Despite the fact that the Jewish people in ghettos weren’t poor, main characteristic of ghetto was its negative impact on quality of life, and their physical and social isolation from the rest of society.Contemporary ghettos in the U.S. are mostly determined with poverty, low quality of life, high criminal rate, and the ethnical homogeneity of the dwellers....
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