ghettoize

present singular third person ghettoizes · participle present ghettoizing · participle past ghettoized · past ghettoized · alternative ghettoise

1. transitiveTo put (someone) in a ghetto, or to isolate as if in a ghetto.
2. transitiveTo make (a place) into a ghetto, or to add the characteristics of a ghetto.

   Liberation includes the full range of sexual, social, racial and economic relations with the goal of empowering lesbianism as a valuable, legitimate choice for all women, not settling for a tolerance of ghettoized "deviant lifestyles."

   1982 December 4, Sharon Page, “R2N2 Conference: Revitalizing the Movement”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 3