Offers a provocative study of the influence of "ghetto" attitudes, lifestyles, and mores on urban communities and American culture and critiques this persona and its attitudes towards women, education, and African-Americans.

Includes index.

Prologue: I am ghetto -- That's so ghetto -- Livin' large -- Exporting dirty laundry -- Ghettonation speaks -- Please baby, please -- Family values -- Nigga wha, nigga who -- School me -- Cos speaks -- Do you speak?.