1. OBJECTIVE
Students will analyze the various components which people used to create cultural identity in order to evaluate the role that geography plays in the formation of that cultural identity.

2. Cultural Identity
Identity – constructed through our experiences, emotions, connections, rejections… very fluid concept
Identifying Against – one of the most powerful manners of identification

3. Race and Cultural Identity
Race  constructed identity and it is not biologically based.
Grew out of European Exploration, colonialism, and support of the slave trade

4. RACE
a categorization of humans based on skin color and other physical characteristics
Racial categories are social and political constructions
Based on ideas that some biological differences (race) are more important than others (height)
Development highly associated with colonialism.

5. Racism
Initially fueled by the attempt to justify the African Slave trade and slave ownership in the United States
Continued as a means to define superiority based on socio-economic class

6. Racism in the United States
We typically get to choose some forms of cultural identity
Race is assigned
Subsequent racist interaction forges the cultural identity out of that struggle

7. Identities Across Scales
Complex idea of cultural identity
Created different identities at different scales:
local,regional, national, and global
The geographic limits provided directly impact the cultural identity which we claim

8. Ethnicity
Affiliation or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture
Manner by which we can develop a sense of place
SENSE OF PLACE – state of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place or by labeling a place with a certain character.

9. Little Italy Invasion and Succession
process by which new immigrants to a city move to and dominate or take over areas or neighborhoods occupied by older immigrant groups

10. Residential Segregation
Defined by Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton
The degree to which two or more groups live separately from one another in different parts of the urban environment
How would residential segregation contribute to the overall impression that race or ethnicity= cultural identity?