1. Chapter 7: Ethnicities
Key Issue 1: Where Are Ethnicities Distributed?
Rubenstein, pp
Name:
Period:
DISTRIBUTION OF ETHNICITIES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES
1a. Define ethnicity:
1b. Define race:
2. In the table below, identify America’s FOUR major ethnic groups (other than white-Europeans).
Ethnic Group
% of U.S. Population
3. In terms of the concept of race…
a. what is the “problem” with the way the US Census Bureau defines “Asian”?
b. what is the difference between “African-American” and “black”?
c. how does the US Census Bureau consider Hispanic/Latino?
4a. What is racism?
Ethnic Clustering
5. Give an example (including percentages) of an area (city/state) where each of the following groups are clustered:
African Americans:
Hispanics:

2. Migration within cities (the ghetto)
5b. Highlight the general areas of distribution for the following groups on the map below (use figures 7-7,7-8,7-9). Fill in the key below with the color you chose for each group
Key
Hispanics
African Americans
Asian Americans
Clustering in cities
6. What is the distribution of African-Americans and Hispanic Americans in US urban areas?
African-Americans Hispanics
7. Provide an example to illustrate that African-Americans or Hispanics in the US are more urbanized (likely to live in cities) than whites. (p. 230)
Ethnicity: Key Issue 2
Why Do Ethnicities Have Distinctive Distributions?
Rubenstein, pp
1. Complete the table below to summarize the historic migration patterns of African- Americans. (When, from where, to where, what) Pgs
Migration from Africa
Migration to the North
Migration within cities (the ghetto)

3. 2a. List the major Hispanic groups in the US?
2b. List the major Asian groups in the US?
3. Draw a simplified diagram of the Triangular Slave Trade on the map below. (Label Regions, and material goods swapped).
4. Briefly describe how ghettos developed in US cities.
5. Describe each of the following concepts dealing with the geography of race.
White Flight:
Blockbusting:
“Separate But Equal”
Jim Crow Laws:
 6. Which how “separate but equal” was overturned.

4. CASE STUDY: South Africa – Division by Race
Use pages 236 – 237 in the text to complete the case study below.
Define apartheid:
Explain the key components of the apartheid system:
Complete the following timeline with notes on each stage of South African history and annotate the map below, describing what it shows.
1652
1795
1948
1991
1994

5. Ethnicity Nationality
Key Issue 3: Why do conflicts arise among ethnicities?
Rubenstein, pp
1. Define nationality:
Nationalities in North America
2a. Though they are very similar, use the table below to show how nationality differs from ethnicity. (2nd paragraph of reading.)
Ethnicity
Nationality
2b. Within the Untied States explain the difference in meaning between the terms below:
Nationality
Ethnicity
Race
Ethnicities and Nationalities
3. Explain the difference between the following ethnicities and nationalities within the Great Britain and Ireland.
Ethnicities
Nationalities
English:
Scots:
The United Kingdom:
Welsh:
Irish:
The Republic of Ireland:
4a. Define centripetal force:
4b. Explain how nationalism is an example of centripetal force.

6. Case Study: Ethnic Competition in Lebanon
5a. Read “Ethnic Competition in Lebanon” on page 240 and complete the case study questions below.
5b. List the different Sects of Christians and Muslim in Lebanon:
Christians
Muslims
Lebanon became independent in 1943, yet the Christians in the country differentiated themselves from the Muslims. This created an issue.
c. How did Lebanon’s 1943 constitution seek to solve the religion problem?
The president…
The premier…
The speaker of the chamber of deputies…
The foreign minister…
d. How has the make-up of the population changed since 1943?
e. What happened in 1975? How has it been resolved? (Look to 1990 & beyond)
6. Label the map of Lebanon and the surrounding region, and complete the key below.
Explain what the map represents:
Key
Christians
Sunnis
Shiites
Druze

7. Case Study: Ethnic Diversity in Sri Lanka
7. Read Dividing Sri Lanka Among Ethnicities on page and complete the case study.
7a. Create a map of the religious-ethnic geography of the island of Ceylon, the country of Sri Lanka.
7b. Fill in the chart which compares the ethnicities of this country in terms of language and religion.
Ethnic Group and %
Language (Family, etc..)
Religions
Where? (Location)
Key
Sinhalese
Tamil
Moor
7c. How has violence between two of these groups (which goes back 2,000 years) been suppressed during the past 300 years?
7d. What occurred in 1948?
7e. Which group is unhappy? Why?
Dividing Ethnicities
8. When the British ended colonial control of South Asia in 1947, what did they do in the
region?
a. politically?…
b. ethnically (religiously)?
9. Some BIG numbers of forced migrants:
a. How many people found themselves “on the wrong side of [the] boundary” in the 1940s?
b. How many Muslims migrated from India to West Pakistan (Pakistan, today)?

8. c. How many Muslims migrated from India to East Pakistan (Bangladesh, today)?
d. How many Hindus migrated from East and West Pakistan into India?
e. What happened to many of the refugees as they traveled?
10. Why is the region of Kashmir problem?
a. politically?
b. in terms of religion?
11. Label the following regions on the map: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Jammu and Kashmir
Also label: Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, China, and Afghanistan. Also, label the flows of people (arrows).
Explain what the map represents:
12. Explain, in detail, the problems faced by the Kurds in Asia.

9. Key Issue 4: Why do ethnicities engage in ethnic cleansing and genocide?
Rubenstein, pp
Define ethnic cleansing:
Complete the map below illustrating the forced migration of ethnicities after WWII. Create a Key in the box below 
Key:
Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans
3. In the chart below, list the different religions, languages, ethnic groups. Next, explain the conflicts each of these has cause. Use pages
List of…
Conflicts
 Languages:
Religions:
Ethnic Groups:
4. Read “Documenting Ethnic Cleansing” on page 249. Summarize in below.

10. Key Issue 4: Why do ethnicities engage in ethnic cleansing and genocide?
Rubenstein, pp
Define ethnic cleansing:
Complete the map below illustrating the forced migration of ethnicities after WWII. Create a Key in the box below 
Key:
Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans
3. In the chart below, list the different religions, languages, ethnic groups. Next, explain the conflicts each of these has cause. Use pages
List of…
Conflicts
 Languages:
Religions:
Ethnic Groups:
4. Read “Documenting Ethnic Cleansing” on page 249. Summarize in below.

11. 5. Compare and contrast ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Kosovo, using the Venn below.
Bosnia
Kosovo
6. Define the following terms:
Balkanized:
Balkanization:
Genocide:
7. Take notes, using the chart below, about genocide in Northeastern Africa and Central Africa.
Sudan/ South Sudan:
Ethiopia and Eritrea:
Somalia:
Rwanda:
Congo:
Colonial Legacy:

12. Ethnic Cleansing and Drought
Case Study Sheet
Directions: Complete the following case study about ethnic cleansing (P 254).
Name/Topic of Case Study:
Ethnic Cleansing and Drought
Topic in AP Human Geography:
Location:
(Country and Region)
Purpose of Case Study:
Summarize the Case Study Below:
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