Princeton Sociologist Mitchell Duneier Wins the 2017 Zócalo Book Prize
Ghetto Investigates the History of a Word, a Place, and an Idea That Has Shaped Our Cities and Culture
Mitchell Duneier, author of Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea and a sociologist at Princeton University, is the winner of the seventh annual Zócalo Book Prize. Duneier traces the ghetto from its 16th-century origins—when the Jews of Venice, Italy were forced to live in il ghetto—to Nazi Germany and America today. Duneier shows how the idea of the ghetto has become unmoored from its history, and how the work of 21st-century social scientists can shine a light on the ways we understand, misunderstand, and try …
