chapter five identity race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality
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Chapter FiveIdentity
Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality
??Chapter Questions??
1. What is identity and how are identities constructed?
2. How do places affect identity, and how can we see identities in places?
3. How do power relationships subjugate certain groups of people?
Identityn., pl., -ties.
The set of behavioral or personal characteristics by which an individual is recognizable as a
member of a group.
How we make sense of ourselves
How People are Identified
Identifying against is defining the other the defining yourself as
“not the other”
Racismthe identifying of a people based on
skin color and treating them differently
“social-economic differences fuel racism” -Benedict Anderson
In the US
White Populations
prosper economically
over Black and Hispanic
Populations
Racism is based primarily on past events and superiority
HISTORY
In the US
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Asi
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Population, 2000
Residential segregation is the “degree to which two or more groups live
separately from one another, in different parts of an urban environment”
- Douglas Massey & Nancy Denton
Forms
• (evenness)- over represented in one area, under represented in another
• (exposed)- exposure to majority is limited• (concentrated)- spatially concentrated• (centralized)- centralized around and urban
core• (clustered)- tightly clustered to form a large
contiguous enclave
In EuropeThe gypsy
population is forced to leave a region
after a certain period of time.
The Tamil population was pushed to north
eastern Sri Lanka.
.Tamil
minority
Non-Tamilmajority
Ethnicity is an affiliation
within a group of people by
common ancestry
Space is social
relations stretched out
Localm e m b e rs o f co m m u n ity
RegionalS o uth ern er
N o rth G e org ianY a nkee
NationalA m e rican
C o lleg e S tud e n tP o lit ica l P a ry
GlobalW e a lthy
E du ca tedW e s te rn
S ca le Id e n tity H ie arch y (sm a ll to b ig )
Place is “particular articulations of those social relations as they have
come together in a particular location”
- Doreen Massey and Pat Jess
Queer Theory has to do with interrelationships between sexuality and
geographic space
• Controversy with the use of the negatively used word “queer”
• It is the relationship of a homosexual population with a heterosexual population
Gendered, is when a region is dominated by either men or women.
• Most LDC are male gendered areas
• Gendered areas are based on…..– Education
– Population
– Economic and Political status
• New laws have been produce to reduce gendered areas
• Education being provided for women in the Middle East
• Most MDC the region is dominated by both men and women equally.
Power RelationsPeople create places where they limit the
access of other people
• Shape Cultural Landscape
• subjugate groups of people with….. -Force/ Violence -Propaganda
• Nazi Germany• India with the Dowry
Deaths • Sri Lanka and the
Tamils• Blacks in America
before 1940
Dowry Deaths
Jewish Gettos
Key Terms *Remember Them*Sense of Place- the meaning and feeling of placeResidential Segregation- the degree two groups are separated from one anotherBarriozation- the dramatic increase in Hispanic population in a give neighborhoodGendered- an area that dominated by men or womenDowry Deaths- a dispute for money between families of a married couple in India, where violence is used on the wifeIdentity- how we make sense of ourselvesRacism- the judging and treaty someone based on raceQueer Theory- interrelationships between sexuality and geographic space Invasion and Succession- new immigrants occupy areas, occupied by older immigrantsEthnicity- affiliation within a group of people by common ancestry and culture
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Created byMike Jacobs