Ghetto : : the history of a word

Title Ghetto : : the history of a word
Names Schwartz, Daniel B.
Book Number DB107993
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Book
Annotation "Few words are as ideologically charged as "ghetto," a term that has described legally segregated Jewish quarters, dense immigrant enclaves, Nazi holding pens, and black neighborhoods in the United States. Daniel B. Schwartz reveals how the history of ghettos is tied up with struggle and argument over the slippery meaning of a word." -- Provided by publisher. -- Some violence and some strong language. 2019.
Narrator Ashby, Mark.
Local Subject History - HST
Adult Book - AD
Adult Non-Fiction - AN
Linguistics - LGL
General Non-Fiction - GNF
Short Book - SH
Audience Notes Male narrator.
Contains violence.
Contains strong language.
LC Subject Ethnic neighborhoods - History
Ghetto (The English word)
Inner cities - History
Inner cities - United States - History
Jewish ghettos - History
Segregation - History
Nonfiction
Call Number 307.336609 ANF
Language English
Released 2019
Publication Info Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress, 2019 (Potomac Talking Book Services, recording studio)
Original Publication Recorded from: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019. 9780674243354
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