Inner city
American euphemism for low-income, majority-minority city neighborhoods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"The hood" redirects here. For the character, see The Hood. For other uses, see Hood (disambiguation).
For other uses, see Inner city (disambiguation).
The term inner city has been used, especially in the United States, as a euphemism for majority-minority lower-income residential districts that often refer to rundown neighborhoods, in a downtown or city centre area.[1] Sociologists sometimes turn the euphemism into a formal designation by applying the term inner city to such residential areas, rather than to more geographically central commercial districts, often referred to by terms like downtown or city centre.
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