[Ads-l] Antedating of "Ghetto" (Adjective)

[Bill Mullins]

>   ghetto, adj. (OED 1987)
>
>   1977 Chicago Tribune 19 Oct. Section 3, page 4/1 (Newspapers.com)
>
>   I grew up in Harlem.  I attended elementary school at P.S. 186 at 145th and Amsterdam, and
>   I attended Still Junior High, and the Food Trades High School and George Washington High at
>   192d and Audubon.  That's ghetto, real ghetto.
>
>   Fred Shapiro

I'm not wholly clear on the distinction between sense B., which Fred is antedating, and sense C1.b., which seems very similar.


1963 Petal MS _The Petal Paper_ 7 Nov 1/3

If statistically Negroes commit more crimes in America than Non-Negroes, the cause lies not in our "Negro-ness" but in the very ghetto life that we are forced to lead under a system of rigid segregation, in the formation we receive.

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