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Ghettos

By: Peter Marcuse
In: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World
Edited by: Karen Christensen & David Levinson
Subject:Community Psychology, Sociology of Communities

The term ghetto probably originated in fifteenthcentury Venice, where Jews were confined to an island, once used by an old foundry known as a “ghetto” (from the Italian gettare, “to pour”), connected to the city only by bridges that were closed ...

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  Marcuse, P. (2003). Ghettos. In K. Christensen & D. Levinson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of community: From the village to the virtual world (Vol. 1, pp. 548-551). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781412952583.n206
  
  Marcuse, Peter. "Ghettos." In Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, edited by Karen Christensen and David Levinson, 548-551. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003. doi: 10.4135/9781412952583.n206.
  
  Marcuse, P 2003, 'Ghettos', in Christensen, K & Levinson, D (eds), Encyclopedia of community: from the village to the virtual world, SAGE Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 548-551, viewed 26 November 2020, doi: 10.4135/9781412952583.n206.
  
  Marcuse, Peter. "Ghettos." Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Eds. Karen Christensen and David Levinson. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003. 548-551. SAGE Knowledge. Web. 26 Nov. 2020, doi: 10.4135/9781412952583.n206.
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