Involuntary segregation and the ghetto: Disconnecting process and place

City and Community

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 353-357

  Gans, Herbert J ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 68949102389     PISSN: 15356841     EISSN: 15406040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6040.2008.00271_2.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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1. Thus when William J. Wilson (1987) analyzes black ghettos as areas of concentrated poverty, he is describing areas that are both racial and economic ghettos, while Pattillo (2003) views the ghetto as purely racial. One can, however, argue about (and study) whether economic segregation is as involuntary as racial.
2. The Jewish neighborhood that Wirth (1928) studied was, despite the title of his book, an enclave.
3. Wacquant (2007) has described these areas as hyperghettos, although since their residents are no more or less ghettoized than most other blacks, they are really hyperpoor areas.
4. If researchers could gain access to the neighborhoods of the very rich, they would discover areas of concentrated affluence, which enable the very richest to maintain their distance from the lesser rich.