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"The Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction provides an overview of the history of the ghetto, focusing on specific times and places throughout history. Is the ghetto real or imagined? The word 'ghetto' would not have existed without sixteenth-century Italian economic interests, which led to the replacement of original Jewish quarters with enclosed communities. During the Holocaust, there were hundreds of Nazi ghettos varying in size, duration, and identity. The language of the ghetto was adopted by African-Americans in the mid-twentieth century and is still used to describe both the concrete and abstract qualities of segregated urban life. There is no single place encompassing 'the ghetto.'"--