“A black city within the white”. Revisiting America’s dark ghetto
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Resumo: | This article returns to the social history of African Americans to show that a ghetto is not simply a conglomeration of poor families or a spatial accumulation of undesirable social conditions (income deprivation, housing blight, or endemic crime and other disruptive behaviors), but an institutional form, an instrument of ethnoracial closure and power whereby an urban population deemed disreputable and dangerous is at once secluded and controlled. Such compulsory institutional encasement founded on spatial confinement has been noted by every major Afro-American student of the black urban predicament in the twentieth century, from W.E.B. Du Bois and St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton to E. Franklin Frazier, Kenneth Clark’s and Oliver Cromwell Cox. The elision of the ethnoracial dimension of urban relegation in the academic tale of the “ghetto underclass” emerging in the 1980s, which redefines the “ghetto” in strict income terms, is revealed to express the mounting suppression of race in policy-oriented research as the “War on Poverty” gave way to the “War on Welfare.” Key-words: ghetto, urbanization, afro-american studies. |
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“A black city within the white”. Revisiting America’s dark ghetto“Uma cidade negra entre os brancos”. Revisitando o gueto negro da AméricaThis article returns to the social history of African Americans to show that a ghetto is not simply a conglomeration of poor families or a spatial accumulation of undesirable social conditions (income deprivation, housing blight, or endemic crime and other disruptive behaviors), but an institutional form, an instrument of ethnoracial closure and power whereby an urban population deemed disreputable and dangerous is at once secluded and controlled. Such compulsory institutional encasement founded on spatial confinement has been noted by every major Afro-American student of the black urban predicament in the twentieth century, from W.E.B. Du Bois and St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton to E. Franklin Frazier, Kenneth Clark’s and Oliver Cromwell Cox. The elision of the ethnoracial dimension of urban relegation in the academic tale of the “ghetto underclass” emerging in the 1980s, which redefines the “ghetto” in strict income terms, is revealed to express the mounting suppression of race in policy-oriented research as the “War on Poverty” gave way to the “War on Welfare.” Key-words: ghetto, urbanization, afro-american studies.Este artigo retorna à história social dos afro-americanos para mostrar que um gueto não é simplesmente um conglomerado de famílias pobres ou um acúmulo espacial de condições sociais indesejáveis (privação de renda, habitação precária, crime endêmico e outros comportamentos disruptivos), mas uma forma institucional, um instrumento de enclausuramento étnico-racial e poder através do qual uma população urbana tida como desonrosa e perigosa é ao mesmo tempo isolada e controlada. Este enquadramento institucional compulsório, baseado no confinamento espacial, foi notado por todos os grandes estudiosos afro-americanos da categoria negro-urbano no século vinte, de W. E. B. Du Bois, St. Clair Drake e Horace Cayton a E. Franklin Frazier, Kenneth Clark e Oliver Cromwell Cox. A elisão da dimensão étnico-racial do enclausuramento urbano, no drama acadêmico da “underclass” do gueto – que emergiu nos anos 80, e que redefine o “gueto” em termos estritamente econômicos – é revelada para expressar a supressão crescente da raça na pesquisa orientada para políticas, à medida que a “Guerra à Pobreza” deu lugar à “Guerra ao Bem-Estar Social”.Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)2004-01-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionAvaliado por paresapplication/pdfhttps://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/politica/article/view/199310.5007/%xPolítica & Sociedade; Vol. 3 No. 5 (2004); 263-278Política & Sociedade; Vol. 3 Núm. 5 (2004); 263-278Política & Sociedade; v. 3 n. 5 (2004); 263-2782175-79841677-4140reponame:Política & Sociedade (Online)instname:Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)instacron:UFSCporhttps://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/politica/article/view/1993/1742Copyright (c) 2004 Política & Sociedadeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessWacquant, Loïc2022-11-21T14:13:34Zoai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/1993Revistahttp://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/politicaPUBhttps://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/politica/oai||ernesto.seidl@ufsc.br|| ps@cfh.ufsc.br2175-79841677-4140opendoar:2022-11-21T14:13:34Política & Sociedade (Online) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)false |
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“A black city within the white”. Revisiting America’s dark ghetto “Uma cidade negra entre os brancos”. Revisitando o gueto negro da América |
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This article returns to the social history of African Americans to show that a ghetto is not simply a conglomeration of poor families or a spatial accumulation of undesirable social conditions (income deprivation, housing blight, or endemic crime and other disruptive behaviors), but an institutional form, an instrument of ethnoracial closure and power whereby an urban population deemed disreputable and dangerous is at once secluded and controlled. Such compulsory institutional encasement founded on spatial confinement has been noted by every major Afro-American student of the black urban predicament in the twentieth century, from W.E.B. Du Bois and St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton to E. Franklin Frazier, Kenneth Clark’s and Oliver Cromwell Cox. The elision of the ethnoracial dimension of urban relegation in the academic tale of the “ghetto underclass” emerging in the 1980s, which redefines the “ghetto” in strict income terms, is revealed to express the mounting suppression of race in policy-oriented research as the “War on Poverty” gave way to the “War on Welfare.” Key-words: ghetto, urbanization, afro-american studies. |
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