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AIM: What is identity and how are identities constructed? Do Now: What do you identify with, and what do you identify against? Come up with at least 3 of each.

Identify Mr. Fine Mets Fans Union Members My Family Tea Partiers With Me Against me Mets Fans Union Members My Family Tea Partiers The French Dan AKA “That Guy” Identify Mr. Fine

Identifying Against We do this to make ourselves feel better and put “others” down. During the Age of Exploration Europeans saw themselves as civilized and saw natives of other places as barbaric, mystical, mysterious, savage. Common divides people have used to Identify with or against include nationality, ethnicity, religion and race.

How can we scale Identity? Country of origin. State or province or origin. City or town of origin. Neighborhood. School. Relatives. Religion. Regions. (Northerners vs. Southerners) Level of education. Socio-economic class. Gender Identity. Sexual Preference. Political Preference. Food Preference. Preferred side of the bed. Left-Handed vs. Right Handed. Roles in life (daughter, son, mother, father, grandson, brother, sister, granddaughter, niece, nephew, cousin, friend, enemy. Etc…) Job. Language.

Remember. We make Race.

The United States is becoming more and more diverse. As a result, we have changed our census forms. We’ve developed more nuance when looking at terms like “Hispanic”. But residential segregation by ethnicity or race still persists in our towns and cities. What sort of ethnically segregated neighborhoods still exist in New York?

Little Italy

Crown Heights

Harlem

Washington Heights

Williamsburg Not really an ethnicity****

Distribution of Ethnicities in the United States The two most numerous ethnicities in the United States are African- Americans, about 13 percent, and Hispanics or Latinos, about 11 percent. In addition, about 4 percent are Asian-American and 1 percent American Indian.

Clustering of Ethnicities. Clustering of ethnicities can occur at two scales, particular regions of the country, and. particular neighborhoods within cities. African-Americans are clustered in the Southeast, Hispanics in the Southwest, Asian-Americans in the West, and American Indians in the Southwest and Plains states.

African Americans in the U.S. Many African Americans live in the rural south…Why?

Slavery Most slaves were sent to work in the south on plantations after being brought over from Africa. After the passage of the 13th amendment, many stayed in the south.

Attitudes Towards Slaves Freed as slaves, most African Americans remained in the rural South during the late nineteenth century working as sharecroppers. A sharecropper works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops. The sharecropper system burdened poor African-Americans with high interest rates and heavy debts. Instead of growing food that they could eat, sharecroppers were forced by landowners to plant extensive areas of crops such as cotton that could be sold for cash.

African-American Migration Patterns. Three major migration flows have shaped (African-American) distribution within the United States: 1.immigration from Africa. . . in the eighteenth century; 2.immigration to northern cities during the first half of the twentieth century; 3.(and) immigration from inner-city ghettos to other urban neighborhoods in the second half of the twentieth century.

Triangle Slave Trade

African American Migration in the U.S.A. Twentieth-century African American migration within the U.S. consisted mainly of migration from the rural south to cities of the Northeast.

African Americans in Baltimore

Hispanic Americans Hispanic or Hispanic- American is a term that the U.S. government chose in 1973 because it was an inoffensive label that could be applied to all people from Spanish-speaking countries. Some Americans of Latin- American descent have adopted the term Latino instead. Most Hispanics identify with a more specific ethnic or national origin.

Hispanic Americans in the U.S. Most Hispanic Americans live in the Southwest.

Asian Americans in the U.S. The highest percentage of Asian Americans live on the west coast or in Hawaii.

Native Americans Many people of Native American descent are clustered in the Southwest and the Plains.

Concentrations of Ethnicities in Cities. About one-fourth of all Americans live in cities, whereas more than half of African-Americans live in cities. The contrast is greater at the state level. For example, African-Americans comprise three-fourths of the population in the city of Detroit and only one-twentieth in the rest of Michigan. The distribution of Hispanics is similar to that of African- Americans in large northern cities.

Why did the white people leave?

Brainstorm White flight to the suburbs. High crime rate. Housing lost value. Detroit’s jobs in the auto-industry started disappearing. Race riots of 1967 scared Whites away.

Ethnic Distribution In the states with the largest Hispanic populations—California and Texas—ethnic distribution is mixed. The clustering of ethnicities is especially pronounced at the scale of neighborhoods within cities. During the twentieth century the children and grandchildren of European immigrants moved out of most of the original inner-city neighborhoods. For descendants of European immigrants, ethnic identity is more likely to be retained through religion, food, and other cultural traditions rather than through location of residence.

Ethnicities in Chicago African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and European Americans are clustered in different neighborhoods.

Ethnicities of Los Angeles Hispanic, white, African American, and Asian areas in and around Los Angeles.

The Census Every 10 years the U.S. Bureau of the Census asks people to classify themselves according to races with which they most closely identify. The 2000 census permitted people to check more than 1 of 14 categories listed. A distinctive feature of race relations in the United States has been the strong discouragement of spatial interaction the past through legal means, today through cultural preferences or discrimination.

“Separate but Equal” Jim Crow In 1896 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Louisiana law that required black and white passengers to ride in separate railway cars, in Plessy v. Ferguson. Once the Supreme Court permitted “separate but equal” treatment of the races, southern states enacted a comprehensive set of laws to segregate blacks from whites as much as possible.

Racism and Ethnocentrism Throughout the country, not just in the South, house deeds contained restrictive covenants that prevented the owners from selling to blacks, as well as to Roman Catholics or Jews in some places.

Integration did happen eventually.

Why do you suppose that people of similar backgrounds tend to cluster together?