Reading List for Re-theorizing the Ghetto

1. The Jewish Ghetto:  The Original Concept

Wirth, The Ghetto.  Chapters 2 and 3,  The Origin and Institution of the Ghetto pp 11-39;

Sennett, Flesh and Stone Chapter 7  Fear of Touching pp 212-251

2. The Black Ghetto

Drake and Cayton, Black Metropolis, Richard Wright’s Introduction and Chapter Eight,
The Black Ghetto pp xvii-xxxiv and 174-213

Osofsky, Harlem: The Making of a Black Ghetto. Reprospect: The Enduring Ghetto, pp 189-201

Spear, Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, Chapter 5, The Institutional Ghetto  pp 91-110

Clark, The Dark Ghetto,  Chapter 2, The Invisible Wall  11-20

The 1919 Race Riots and Gangs

: http://www.uic.edu/orgs/kbc/ganghistory/Industrial%20Era/Riotbegins.html

3. The Second Ghetto

Arnold Hirsch,  Making the Second Ghetto, Chapter 7, Making  the Second Ghetto  pp 212-275

William Julius Wilson, The Declining Significance of Race, Chapter 5, Modern Industrialization and the
Alteration of Competitive Race Relations, pp 88-121

4.  The Ghetto Today Segregation in Chicago 2000. 

Doug Massey and Nancy Denton, American Apartheid, Chapter 3, The Peristance of the Ghetto, pp 60-82

Loic Wacquant : "Three Pernicious Premises in the Study of the Ghetto," International Journal of Urban and
Regional Planning 21: (2) 1997  pp 341-353 and "The New peculiar Institution: On the prison as
substitute ghetto," Theoretical Criminology 4 (3) 2000 PP 377-389.

Janet Abu-Lughod "The Specificity of the Chicago Ghetto: Comment on Wacquant's 'Three Pernicious Premises'"
International Journal of Urban and Regional Planning 21: (2) 1997  pp 357-362.

Peter Marcuse, "The Enclave, the Citadel, and the Ghetto: What has Changed in the Post-Fordist U.S. City" Urban Affairs Review 33:2: 228-264

Literary Notes on the Ghetto