The Ghetto

Wirth, Louis

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“…Most importantly, Wacquant contends that multicultural and transcultural functionality of ghetto is nuanced by its "potent collective identity machine" and a "cultural combustion engine", because it "sharpens the boundary between the outcast category and the surrounding population by deepening the sociocultural chasm between them"-(multiculturalism), and because it "melts divisions amongst the confined group and fuels its collective pride even as it entrenches the stigma that hovers over it … [in such a way that] spatial and institutional entrapment deflect class differences and corrode cultural distinctions within the relegated ethno-racial category" -(transculturalism)''(7). Furthermore, Wirth (1928), Drake and Cayton (1993) posit that transcultural proof of ghettoization is reflected in the welding together of Christian and Sephardic Jews under: an overarching Jewish identity such that they evolved a common 'social type' and 'state of mind' across the ghettos of Europe … and America's dark ghetto … accelerated (by)the socio-symbolic amalgamation of mulattos and Negroes into a single 'race' and turned racial consciousness into a mass phenomenon fuelling community mobilization against caste exclusion. (Drake and Cayton 8)…”

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‘Reconfiguring Others’: Negotiating Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

Akingbe¹

2017

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An examination of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah reveals a mapping of exponential growth of obtrusive racial tension which leaves in its wakes prejudice, acrimony and hatred. The article argues that despite its dialogic engagement with the possibility of harmonizing the varied characters' racial/cultural backgrounds, Adichie's Americanah's experimentation with transculturalism faded in a miasma of morbid biases and despair. This failure has a marked impact on the cultural downturn in the lives of African immigrants and other economic migrants from other parts of the world who are trapped in the social contradictions prevalent in America and England. Through concerted efforts, Adichie negotiated interracial harmony among her characters in Americanah; especially among ethnocentric characters cocooned in private world of hate, snobbishness and recherché referenced by the turbulent contemporary world. Invariably, Adichie as a transcultural writer is bounded by the need to illustrate issues which verge on individuals' intolerance for people outside their ethno-cultural or socio-political backgrounds. Nevertheless, Americanah's transcultural trope appreciates the fluidity of the present age: the confluence of global cultures, the mobility as well as nomadic nature of the 21st-century man and the need to engender a monolithic cultural outlook in a culturally polyvalent society. The paper concludes that transculturalism could only manifest in a globally differing society if the walls of ethnocentrism and racism insulating it collapse. Curiously, transculturalism in Americanah ostensibly failed due to the obtrusive racial intolerance exhibited by the varied characters who appear to have determined to cling to the divisive racial sentiments identified in their attitude.Keywords: 'reconfiguring others', negotiating identity, Americanah, African immigrants, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie IntroductionChimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a burgeoning Nigerian writer who continually forges the link between the Nigeria's past and present. Her imaginative dexterity is referenced in her glancing backwards to the needless Nigerian civil war in her Half of a Yellow sun (2006). A further pursuit of this literary inquisition is foregrounded in a very clever riff on her dissection of the plight of hapless Nigerians trapped in the miasma of racialized America in Americanah (2013). Suffice to state that Adichie's narrative trajectory somewhat reflects Chinua Achebe's novelistic oeuvre. (ISSN 0975-2935), Vol. IX, No. 4, 2017 [ Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

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Section: (Americanah 407) 44 Rupkatha Journal On Interdisciplinary Stmentioning

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‘Reconfiguring Others’: Negotiating Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

Akingbe¹

2017

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“…Las relaciones de intercambio funcional entre grupos no alcanzan a tener una importancia significativa de socialización. Como dijera Louis Wirth (1927) refiriéndose al clásico gueto judío, "las relaciones comerciales son posibles cuando ninguna otra forma de contacto entre dos personas puede ocurrir" (p. 60). Benjamín, uno de los fundadores de La Loma, describe su situación personal.…”

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La persistencia de la segregación y la desigualdad en barrios socialmente diversos: un estudio de caso en La Florida, Santiago

Ruiz‐Tagle

2016

EURE (Santiago)

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issn impreso 0250-7161 | issn digital vol 42 | n o 125 | enero 2016 | pp. 81-108 | artículos | ©EURE La persistencia de la segregación y la desigualdad en barrios socialmente diversos: un estudio de caso en La Florida, SantiagoJavier Ruiz-Tagle. Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.resumen | Se ha discutido crecientemente acerca de barrios socialmente mixtos, en función de revertir los problemas sociales adicionales que la concentración de la pobreza supuestamente produce. Dichos estudios destacan los aspectos positivos de la cercanía entre condominios cerrados y viviendas sociales, pero se han sobreestimado los cambios simbólicos por sobre problemas más críticos de persistente segregación y desigualdad. Basado en una perspectiva multidimensional de la integración socioespacial, se presenta un estudio de caso en La Florida, Santiago: un barrio con una historia de tomas de terreno, proyectos de vivienda social y, recientemente, nueva población de clase media y media-alta. El caso muestra lo compleja que ha sido esta coexistencia, y cómo la segregación se ha ido moviendo desde la vivienda hacia otras esferas de socialización. Se recalca la necesidad de una visión institucional y crítica acerca de la mixtura social, los efectos de barrio y la redistribución territorial de recursos.palabras clave | integración social, segregación, sociología urbana.

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“…Η χωρική και η θεσμική παγίδευση εκτρέπουν τις ταξικές διαφορές και δια βρώνουν τις πολιτισμικές διακρίσεις μέσα στην περιθωριοποιημένη εθνο-φυλετική κατηγορία. Έτσι, ο εκ μέρους των χριστιανών εξοστρακισμός συνένωσε τους Ασκεναζήδες και τους Σεφαραδίτες Εβραίους κάτω από την ομπρέλα μιας εβραϊκής ταυτότητας τέτοιας που τους έκανε να αναπτύ ξουν κοινό «κοινωνικό τύπο» και «τρόπο σκέψης» σε όλα τα γκέτο της Ευρώπης (Wirth, 1928(Wirth, , σ. 71-88, 1964.…”

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ΓΚΕΤΟ. Μτφ: Γιώργος Παππάς.

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The Ghetto

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‘Reconfiguring Others’: Negotiating Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

‘Reconfiguring Others’: Negotiating Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

La persistencia de la segregación y la desigualdad en barrios socialmente diversos: un estudio de caso en La Florida, Santiago

ΓΚΕΤΟ. Μτφ: Γιώργος Παππάς.

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