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This dissertation, intended as a contribution to the fields of Islamic Urban Studies and Moroccan Jewish History, concerns the history of the mellah [Jewish quarter] of the southern Moroccan city of Marrakech. It argues that Moroccan society (like any society) acts on its enviro…

Since the establishment of the State of Israel a body of literature has amassed that deals with the question of the Arabs in Israel. Most researchers start from the empirical reality that Palestinians and Jews in Israel are residentially segregated from each other. Many write of…

This dissertation engages notions of the contemporary American ghetto as a distinct socio-spatial order, one marked by extreme isolation. This engagement is through exploration of the ghetto as an alternative socio-spatial order, distinguished by cosmopolitanism and the role som…

Youngsters that attend public schools in America's ghetto communities face a dilemma. They may accept mainstream American educational goals and face discriminatory practices in the occupational hierarchy and possible rejection by other members of the ghetto community, or they ma…