Racially segregated urban area

Usage examples of ghetto.

Ghetto, hunger and exanthematic typhus did not particularly affect the Jewish populations.

The Third World does not really disappear in the process of unification of the world market but enters into the First, establishes itself at the heart as ghetto, shantytown, favela, always again produced and reproduced.

Gate, past Creekside and the remnants of the khepri ghetto, under the rails, to Smog Bend, into the innards of New Crobuzon.

Jewish BMSs and tough ghetto kids, running and yelling and breathing hard and worrying about chest pain meaning heart attack, throwing sharp elbows and playing dirty under the boards and getting into all-out screaming arguments with fifteen-year-olds about disputed calls, the elbows in fact thrown at Jo and the Fish and the Leggo and the deaths and diseases and wasted healthy moments spent cooped up in the House of God.

From this gate, running clear down the center of the ghetto to the south wall, was Mase Kalnu Iela, or Little Hill Street.

Haredim believe that since the beginning of the Diaspora two thousand years ago, the pinnacle of Jewish life and learning was that which was achieved by the great eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century yeshivas and rabbinic dynasties in the Jewish towns and ghettos of Eastern Europe, which were largely isolated from the Gentile world surrounding them.

Nipponese rapper would give anything for -- to perform my humble works before actual homeboys from the ghettos of L.

It was the Luftwaffe literally razing the Warsaw ghetto to the ground in three days and nights.

Aside from the steam tables, which came to life sometime in the morning and sometime toward sunset, the only rhythms the Rox knew were the sun and the tides and what people felt like cranking through their ghetto blasters.

Out in the street his father caught him and lifted him up and Ade began to cry unbearably as all the murky lights from the ghetto and the filthy untarred road and the broken-down houses and the ulcerous poverty converged on him.

Jim, on the run, goes to Plebtown, a high-tech underclass ghetto on Wolfbane, where he meets Cat, a girl about his own age.

While the assimilationist Jewish leaders naturally opposed the scheme as the first step towards total school segregation, Stricker welcomed the new ghetto schools.

To the Jew the great attraction of all of these Western movements was that they were quantitative, and thus all tended to break down the exclusiveness of the West, which had kept him out of its power struggles, and confined in his ghetto, dreaming of his revenge for centuries of persecution.

She looked quite handsome, and I did not at first recognize her without the ghastly pallor and schmattes she wore in the ghetto.

However, neither Swit nor the KB had any plans for large-scale resistance or escape from the ghettos.