by Anonymous May 1, 2003
Get the Bourgeois ghetto mug.Building on the previous entry, in an urban American United States) context, "the ghetto" refers to areas, neighborhoods, wards, or districts of a city where, due to often racist and/or discriminatory municipal planning policy, certain groups have been intentionally confined and isolated because of their race or ethnicity.
The U.S. example of "the ghetto" is compelling because like the Jewish example cited in the previous entry from which the term originates, the racially homogenous African American ghetto neighborhood was created largely by racist land developers and planning policymakers who bowed to the whims of cruel prejudice named under the facade of "market forces."
In layman's terms, here's how it breaks down: African Americans move from the South en mass in the Depression years to Northern cities (Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, NYC, etc); White people don't like having to share their living space with people with more melanin in their skin. So they enact municipal policy to establish racially and ethnically homogenous neighborhoods; when school bussing comes around in the 60's trying to integrate the races, whites simply abandon the central city and move out to the good ol' sprawling suburbia; what you end up with is entire core city neighborhoods that are entirely African American and their tax base is too low to provide decent services, and we sit back in our lawn chairs in suburbia and wonder why they rap about "the ghetto" and about "hustlin" and about "keeping it real..." Keeping this in mind, "the ghetto" to African Americans seems to imply not just a location or domicile, but a racial solidarity unified in place in fierce opposition to the racial injustices that placed them there in the first place
So to those of you who are insensitive to African American culture, hopefully this little lesson on the racist policy behind creating "the ghetto" will inspire you to look upon hip-hop culture with a bit more benevolence and sensitivity.
The U.S. example of "the ghetto" is compelling because like the Jewish example cited in the previous entry from which the term originates, the racially homogenous African American ghetto neighborhood was created largely by racist land developers and planning policymakers who bowed to the whims of cruel prejudice named under the facade of "market forces."
In layman's terms, here's how it breaks down: African Americans move from the South en mass in the Depression years to Northern cities (Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, NYC, etc); White people don't like having to share their living space with people with more melanin in their skin. So they enact municipal policy to establish racially and ethnically homogenous neighborhoods; when school bussing comes around in the 60's trying to integrate the races, whites simply abandon the central city and move out to the good ol' sprawling suburbia; what you end up with is entire core city neighborhoods that are entirely African American and their tax base is too low to provide decent services, and we sit back in our lawn chairs in suburbia and wonder why they rap about "the ghetto" and about "hustlin" and about "keeping it real..." Keeping this in mind, "the ghetto" to African Americans seems to imply not just a location or domicile, but a racial solidarity unified in place in fierce opposition to the racial injustices that placed them there in the first place
So to those of you who are insensitive to African American culture, hopefully this little lesson on the racist policy behind creating "the ghetto" will inspire you to look upon hip-hop culture with a bit more benevolence and sensitivity.
So when someone says "Yo, we from the ghetto," it implies a separate culture and a separate frame of mind, which ties in nicely to keepin it real
by American Socialist November 10, 2008
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An upper or middle class fucktard who thinks he/or she lives in the ghetto when actually living in a nice neighborhood.Especially the ones who don't know what ghetto.(A ghettofab can be of any race.YES THAT MEANS BLACK PPL CAN BE GHETTOFABS!!!)
Yesterday,i saw a girl ghettofab wearing millions of dollars of jewelry listening to 50 cent and singing about smacking hoes.-_- what a idiot!!
by master bei-ting May 27, 2005
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Get the ghetto fresh mug.Ghetto prep is a style of attire rather than a style of attitude. People who dress ghetto prep aren't actually preps cuz they're not as bitchy and usually where clothes that are less expensive hence the "ghetto". People who dress ghetto prep tend to be a lot cooler than actual preps cuz of the reason they're not always being assholes and disrespecting other people aka bullying them or being self-centred. People who dress ghetto prep are often mistaken for wanna-be preps which they most definately are not. People who dress ghetto prep also don't look exactly like preps, sometimes they put a twist to their attire
guy 1: Man look a jessica she's such a fucking prep, what a fucking looser.
guy 2: Naw man she's no prep she just dresses like one, plus she isn't selfish and she ain't no bitch...she's dresses "ghetto prep".
guy 1: WOOOOOOOOOOW! That's why she's so nice...stoner!
guy 2: But I can't understand why she where's skate shoes.
guy 2: Naw man she's no prep she just dresses like one, plus she isn't selfish and she ain't no bitch...she's dresses "ghetto prep".
guy 1: WOOOOOOOOOOW! That's why she's so nice...stoner!
guy 2: But I can't understand why she where's skate shoes.
by Crystal Bal September 8, 2008
Get the ghetto prep mug.The variety of Spanish spoken by Mexican-American immigrants in the United States, characterized by horrendous grammar, excessive slang, and random outbursts in Spanglish.
I thought my high shcool Spanish courses would prepare me for ordering at Chipotle, but they all spoke ghetto Mexican!
by RoosterRooster November 6, 2010
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