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[Sarah Lang]

I'd add favela to that.
S.

On May 22, 2007, at 2:20 PM, Erik Hoover wrote:

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>  From news reports, the slums all seem to be in the major cities of
> Central and South America now.
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> On May 22, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>> Amen, Larry. BTW, thinking about an old friend, what ever happened to
>> "slum"? [There''s a pun. "Thinking About an Old Friend" is the title
>> of a Texas blues.]
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>> On 5/21/07, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>>> At 3:10 PM -0700 5/21/07, James A. Landau wrote:
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>>>> I remember reading a report Jack London wrote about the 1906 San
>>>> Francisco earthquake in which
>>>> he used "ghetto" to mean segregated housing for people of a social
>>>> class---I don't think
>>>> he meant blacks, my vague recollection is Irish workmen. Nowadays,
>>>> except in figurative
>>>> or historical contexts, "ghetto" exclusively means a type of
>>>> African-American community.
>>>> It would be interesting to track down how the change in connatation
>>>> reflects changes in
>>>> politics and public perception.
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>>> The earlier reference, and perhaps still the salient one then, would
>>> have been for restricted districts for Jews, such as the eponymous
>>> ones in Italy.
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