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Film, Video What's in a Name? The Ghetto Comes to America

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Title

  • What's in a Name? The Ghetto Comes to America

Summary

  • The term "ghetto" was first applied to overcrowded Jewish quarters in late nineteenth-century American cities like New York and Chicago. Over the course of the next century the word was thoroughly Americanized and primarily associated with urban segregation in the United States. Daniel Schwartz illustrates the word's diverse history, use and meaning.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2013-05-28.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History

Notes

  • -  Classification: Auxiliary Sciences of History.
  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Daniel Schwartz.
  • -  Recorded on 2013-05-28.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021689130

Online Format

  • video
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. What's in a Name? The Ghetto Comes to America. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-28, 2013. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689130/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2013) What's in a Name? The Ghetto Comes to America. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-28. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689130/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. What's in a Name? The Ghetto Comes to America. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-28, 2013. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021689130/>.