Ghetto has become a term that defines the urban enclave in which poor minorities, usually Black people, tend to live, confined there by class and race. The term has its origins in 1516, when Venice...

Ghetto has become a term that defines the urban enclave in which poor minorities, usually Black people, tend to live, confined there by class and race. The term has its origins in 1516, when Venice passed a law that required that all Jews live only in a specified area in the city, since “no God fearing inhabitant of the city desired that they should spread out all over it, living in the same houses as Christians and going wherever they pleased day and night, allegedly committing many detestable things” (Benjamin, 1992).