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If only ever so briefly, “Show Dogs” transcends ghettoization in a delirious fantasy sequence in which Frank and Max perform a pas de deux to “The Time of My Life,” the theme from “Dirty Dancing.”

From Washington Post • May 16, 2018

Aren’t you—by calling yourself queer, by calling your book a queer book—complicit in your own ghettoization?

From Salon • Jun. 21, 2016

This lack of contextualization, in conjunction with the apparent reluctance of most video-game publishers to promote their own heritage, has led to the ghettoization of older games.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 11, 2015

‘Angels’ marked the complete obliteration of any kind of ghettoization of gay people in American culture.”

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2010

Tension rose still further over the next few months as a routine decision about the placement of new public housing escalated into a battle over ghettoization.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson