How America’s Ugly History of Segregation Changed the Meaning of the Word ‘Ghetto’

How America's Ugly History of Segregation Changed the Meaning of the Word 'Ghetto'

Daniel B. Schwartz, Time, 09/24/2019

Today, for many Americans, the word “ghetto” conjures images of run-down and crime-ridden African American segregated areas—“inner cities,” in a common euphemism.