Ghetto

All Our Kin is an ethnography about the ghetto community of The Flats in Jackson Harbor. Carol Stack stays with a black family the years 1968-1970, observing, studying, and learning their ways and how to fit in. Her study, later combined with John Lombardi, was to figure out how blacks cope with poverty. Throughout the book, she discovers vital ingredients on how to make kinship work. Everyone shares with each other in order to survive, and everyone who needs help, receives it, and later returns…

I grew up in the “ghetto” town of Pacoima, California. Labeled as one of the most dangerous cities for it’s heavy gang activity and drug use. Despite it seeming like a difficult town to grow up in, I survived the best I could. I lived in a noisy, one room apartment. My parents were always loudly arguing over their differences. When they were both home, I learned to go study and do my homework at the library that was conveniently located across from the apartments. I always loved school, and I…

During the German occupation, the Polish town of Lodz was drained of all Polish nationals and was reinvented as a newly-occupied German settlement. The German authorities expelled the Poles from the area surrounding the city and thus, the Lodz Ghetto was effectively completely cut off and isolated from possible contact with any non-Jewish and non-Nazi groups of people. As a concept, the ghettoes were ultimately a tool to isolate Jews from the non-Jewish populations of Europe – they were often…

people. Once the holocaust started things for the Jews changed forever.It was almost impossible to grow up as a Jew in Germany due to conditions in the ghetto’s, concentration camps, and killing centers Growing up in the ghettos was difficult for Jews Living Conditions in the ghettos. Jews had no protection from the Nazi…

Journal Entry: Week #13 The entry is in response to Charles L Nero's Why Are All the Gay Ghettos White? Nero dispel the notion of a perfect harmonious relationship between gay black and white male community. This is contrary to the idea of that gay people are an oppressed minority group that "exist inside of every other culture." Of course intersectionality plays a huge role here. However, the dynamic is different as it does not relate to women, but between men. I would have liked Nero…

Cultural Destruction In Imani Perry's article, " The Venus Hip Hop and the Pink Ghetto Negotiating Spaces for Women", Perry criticizes the way black woman's are dressing in inappropriate attire, such as bathing suits or clothing that expose their body parts in music videos. She explains how hip hop culture is attacking black women identity and making them look like a commodity buying, and sell just for the pleasure of men. However black women body language on the videos are saying that they are…

in ghettos and…

Holocaust).The Holocaust is a time in history when millions of people were persecuted in Europe by being sent to live in ghettos and eventually being deported to concentration camps where they were systematically annihilated until the Allied forces liberated the remaining survivors. The Jews at first, were forced into the Ghettos, because of orders given…

kept hunger stricken Jews locked in ghettos. Ghettos are little towns inside of cities that could not be left nor entered by a person who does not practice the Jewish faith. Nazi malnutrition and neglect starved the Jews and Roma living there. Lodz Ghetto was among, and one of the biggest of these ghettos. The over 200,000 inhabitants had to endure immense suffering and pain both physically and emotionally. The ghetto was established in 1939 in Poland. Lodz Ghetto played the role of a victim in…

the matter is no matter how hard one may try there truly is no way to entirely reclaim the Ghetto and make reinvent the meaning the word has a serious past that and present definition when people hear an area is ghetto they begin to think of an unpleasant area and will typically try to avoid it. this reality has begun to lead to the development of a new and rather insulting app unofficially named the Ghetto app which has been giving a bad reputation to blacks and Latinos. Sarah Chinn, a…