ghettoize
verb (used with or without object)
to place or collect in a ghetto.
ghettoization
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a word derived from
ghettoize.
Example Sentences
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Though some literary professionals expressed fears of ghettoization, many welcome these new entities as necessary to fight bias, foster new writers and serve readers of Jewish and Israeli books across borders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
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
It was a rebuke to both racial integration and ghettoization.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2015
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
