ghetto box

Example Sentences

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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

"Clay has been ghettoized, and it needs to be pluralized."

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2018

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