This session will investigate aspects of the notion of “ghetto” or “segregation” as theoretical concepts, processes, and lived experience.
“There’s a lot of chocolate cities, around
We’ve got Newark, we’ve got Gary
Somebody told me we got LA
And we’re working on Atlanta
But you’re the capital, CC”
Parliament Funkadelic,
Lyrics – Parliament Funkadelic, Chocolate City, Chocolate City LP (Casablanca, 1975)
Let me begin this account of session 3, “Race, Power, and Urban Spaces” with Carl Nightingale’s (Univ. at Buffalo, SUNY) observation in this session that ghetto entered the American lexicon, through St.
