Chapter Five Identity 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?

Identity n., 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”

Racism the 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

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 Europe The 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-Tamil majority

Ethnicity is an affiliation within a group of people by common ancestry

Space is social relations stretched out

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 Relations People 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 place Residential Segregation- the degree two groups are separated from one another Barriozation- the dramatic increase in Hispanic population in a give neighborhood Gendered- an area that dominated by men or women Dowry Deaths- a dispute for money between families of a married couple in India, where violence is used on the wife Identity- how we make sense of ourselves Racism- the judging and treaty someone based on race Queer Theory- interrelationships between sexuality and geographic space Invasion and Succession- new immigrants occupy areas, occupied by older immigrants Ethnicity- affiliation within a group of people by common ancestry and culture

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