hyperghetto

noun

Etymology

Coined by Loïc Wacquant. From hyper- + ghetto.

Definitions

  1. a severely impoverished and anomic ghetto whose inhabitants are mostly working-class…

    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

The neighborhood

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