1. AP Human Geography Agenda for Monday, November 7
Socrative (Room # DA53E16C)
Rdg QUIZ text pages
Lecture NOTES (p63)
How do power relationships subjugate certain groups of people?
Subjugation Walkabout (p64)
RTE (p65)
Text pages

2. Power Relationships and Subjugation
Chapter 5 Section 3 Text pages
Power Relationships and Subjugation

3. Power Relationships
Assumptions and structures about who is in control, who has power over others
Impact cultural landscape
If you see numerous buildings for a single religion in an area what does this say about power structure?
If you see statues and memorials which only reference a single race of people what does this say about power structures?
If you see gang graffiti crossed out and graphitized over multiple times what does this say about power structures?
Can subjugate groups

4. Where We Live
What does this statue and the city that it’s in say about power relationships between Native Americans and whites?

5. How People are Subjugated
De jure discrimination
Discrimination by law
De facto discrimination
Discrimination by fact
Examples:
It’s illegal for women to drive cars in Saudi Arabia and social norms prevent them from talking with certain people
Jim Crowe era in the United States

6. Segregation in the US

7. Calculating Power Census Gross National Income (GNI)
Measures $ value of things produced inside the U.S. and investment
Does not take into account some jobs and work in the country
Formal economic activity
Work or activity measured by common metrics like GNI
Informal economic activity
Work or activity not measured by common metrics like GNI

8. Economics and Power
When economies are doing well, ethnic groups are generally more accepted
When economies are doing poorly these same groups are less accepted
How we measure economic success can also disenfranchise certain groups within society
Illegal immigrant labor
Migrant labor
People paid “under the table”

9. Women and Power Women are often underrepresented by GNI
Many women around the world perform domestic or side work that is not included in GNI
Most poor women in the world work in the informal sector
making soap
cooking food
beer brewing
tailoring
farming

10. Pink Collar Jobs Pink Collar Jobs What are some Pink Collar Jobs?
Jobs typically seen as women’s jobs
What are some Pink Collar Jobs?
How does this decrease women’s power?

11. India Tradition of dowry Dowry Deaths Infanticide
families receive payments from the bride’s parents
Dowry Deaths
father doesn’t pay the bride price to son- in-law’s parents and they kill the bride.
Infanticide
Prenatal Gender Detection: ultrasound and amniocentesis, July 1994, Federal Law prohibiting pre-natal tests solely to determine sex of the fetus.
Black market emerged for prenatal testing

12. Female Genitalia Mutilation (FGM)
2 million girls under the age of 11 every year
infection
infertility
increased difficulties in childbirth
Africa, Southeast Asia, Middle East, Central and South America
Somalia: 70-90% subjected to FGM

13. Fundamentalist Islamic Law
resurgence of fundamentalism
severe Sharia Laws
can’t go without veils or move without men
Afghanistan under the Taliban
no girls in schools
traditional clothing
no music, no celebrations
women stoned for adultery
women couldn’t hold jobs