The Many Lives of the Ghetto

In "Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea", Princeton sociologist Mitchell Duneier starts with the first ghetto, a place for Jews in sixteenth-century Italy, through the Nazi era to today. He explores how Horace Cayton and St. Clair Drake explicitly linked European Jews and African Americans in their 1945 study of segregated Chicago, "Black Metropolis", and how social observers have consistently misunderstood the entanglements of race, poverty, and place in America today. Award-winning writer and sociologist Mary Pattillo joins Duneier in conversation.

This program is presented as part of the annual Karla Scherer Endowed Lecture Series for the University of Chicago.