This course is intended to give students an in-depth look at the history of a modern institution of oppression, the ghetto. The literature will cover episodes of ghettoization across a wide geographic area. The course runs chronologically, beginning with the ghettoization of Jews in Medieval Europe and ending with the ghettoization of African-Americans in the twentieth-century United States. We will also explore urbanization, urban poverty, and oppression in Africa, Asia, and South and Central America. Evaluation will be based on class participation, a research paper, and a final written essay that addresses the themes developed through the semester. Groups A, B and D