In their effort to communicate complex thoughts, social scientists have borrowed lay terms with impunity. At times, the practice helps to clarify a difficult theory. Perhaps as often, it muddies the ...

Walking through the streets of the world’s first “ghetto,” one might come across a variety of sights: the impoverished Jews confined to that quarter; rabbis reciting elegant speeches in the Italian ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Graphic by Janice Lin/MiC. I remember being confronted by one of my privileged friends for ...

As I look up the word “ghetto” in the dictionary, I find an array of meanings. For instance, according to Merriam-Webster, a ghetto is: a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live ...

The European Union’s top court warned that Denmark’s so-called ghetto law aimed at cutting the proportion of immigrants in inner-city areas may amount to ethnic discrimination.The Court of Justice of ...

Greater Greater Washington, in an interesting blog post the other day, delved into the use of the word “ghetto” in part in response to the heated online discussion that ensued over a mural that went ...

In some countries, a city’s “ghetto” refers to a historical quarter, long populated by an ethnic or religious minority, ...

Expletives aren't always a good sign when showing someone a song you wrote, but that wasn't the case for the man who wrote "In the Ghetto".

Elias Khoury’s “Children of the Ghetto” series continues with a young man switching identities in a society seeking to erase him. By Jess Row Jess Row’s latest book, the novel “The New Earth,” ...

The group of musicians known as Ghetto Classics were recently asked to perform for first lady Jill Biden, and have also entertained former President Barack Obama and Pope Francis Simon Perry is a ...

Numerous cafes and restaurants which operated in the ghetto hosted their own musical and artistic programmes. The most famous venue was the Kawiarnia Sztuka (Art Café) by Leszno street nr 2. Władysław ...