ghettoize

American  

[get-oh-ahyz] / ˈgɛt oʊˌaɪz /

especially British, ghettoise

verb (used with or without object)

ghettoized, ghettoizing

1. to place or collect in a ghetto.

   New immigrants still tended to ghettoize in the cities.

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ghettoize British  

/ ˈɡɛtəʊˌaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) to confine or restrict to a particular area, activity, or category

   to ghettoize women as housewives

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Other Word Forms

• ghettoization
  noun

Etymology

Origin of ghettoize

First recorded in 1935–40; ghetto + -ize

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

ghettoize ghettoized ghettoizing

"Whenever we were tempted to absorb the other, we were tearing down instead of building up. Or when we tried to ghettoize others instead of including them," the pope said.

From Reuters ● Sep. 12, 2021

There’s no reason to ghettoize awards that go to the people who have contributed the most to the industry over the course of their entire lifetime and lots of reasons not to.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2019

But by 2014, it has no relation to how commodities like MP3s actually circulate in transnational culture and it only really serves to ghettoize non-Anglophone artists who deserve more critical and commercial attention.

From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2014

Not that Sylvia Plath needs the help, although her status as the archetypal Wronged Woman has managed both to canonize and to ghettoize her.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2010

The creation of a new category of educational fare, moreover, may simply ghettoize such programming and turn kids off.

From Time Magazine Archive

But until the American experiment, Jews in the diaspora were marginalized, ghettoized, persecuted and eventually converted, exiled or killed.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2022

No one was ghettoized by age or experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2022

Many of them are incredibly successful on their own but because of the difficulties of translations, Hausa literature is often ghettoized and doesn’t receive the same kind of attention that Nigerian literature in English.”

From Time ● Feb. 3, 2016

It is rare to see women of color of such complexity and depth, but only because filmmakers have treated their stories as rarefied or ghettoized narratives, and not as part of the everyday experience.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 30, 2015

“I’m just saying: Maybe scrambled eggs are ghettoized, but they’re also special. They have a place and a time, like church does.”

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

For many, it reeks of patronizing, of ghettoizing “popular” from “art” in a popular art form.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2018

It seems ghettoizing and patronizing to spend one month of every year proving that black history is a holistic part of American history.

From Newsweek ● Jan. 29, 2010

Instead of ghettoizing the gay experience, it integrates it into familiar Americana--gays and straights laughing, loving, misunderstanding one another.

From Time Magazine Archive