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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   a severely impoverished and anomic ghetto whose inhabitants are mostly working-class people of a specific ethnic minority, without any significant presence of wealthier strata

Etymology

Coined by Loïc Wacquant. From hyper- + ghetto.

Related phrases

working class

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