1. Chapter 5 Identity, Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality
Mikhail S
AP Human Geography

2. What is identity and how are identities constructed?
“How we make sense of ourselves.”
Construct our own identities through experiences, emotions, connections, and rejections
“Snapshot” of who you are at the moment.
Constantly changing, shifting, and forming.

3. What is identity and how are identities constructed?
Identity across various scales: Local- member of a community, residents of a neighborhood. Regional- residents of a state or major city. National- residents of a country, members of national groups. Global- residence of a continent, social state (i.e. wealthy, free).

4. What is identity and how are identities constructed?
Identifying Against
Define the “other” (people around you).
Define yourself as not the other.
Constructing you own image based on people around you.

5. Race What is identity and how are identities constructed?
Biologically, everyone is part of the “human race.”
Based on society, difference is skin color, eye color, hair color, etc. within the human race.

6. Racism What is identity and how are identities constructed?
Superiority over another race.
Terminology is different throughout the world.
Not biologically based, but of how particular countries view skin color.

7. Residential Segregation
What is identity and how are identities constructed?
Residential Segregation
Degree to which two or more groups live separately from one another, in different parts of the urban environment.
Invasion and Succession
Immigrants invade a specific neighborhood and over time that neighborhood adapts itself to the culture of the invading group.
Ex. Dominican culture replaced that of Jewish, African-American and Cuban residents of Washington Heights, New York.

8. How do places affect identity and how can we see identities in places?
Ethnicity
An identity of people closely bounded, even related, in a certain place over time.
Ethnicity can change between scales and during certain events such as conflict.

9. How do places affect identity and how can we see identities in places?
Space- social relations that are stretched out over an area.
Place- particular rotations of those social relations as they come together in a particular location.
Sense of Place- a state of mind in which a specific place has a cultural meaning.

10. How do places affect identity and how can we see identities in places?
Gendered Areas
Places designed for men or women
Can be made from scratch (specific building type).
Made from the way people use the place or space.
Queer Theory- the study of heteronormatives and “queers” in society based on a commonly used negative word.

11. How do power relationships subjugate certain groups of people?
Shape Cultural Landscape.
Subjugate entire groups of people into following the majority groups ideals.
Limit the power and abilities of minorities.

12. How do power relationships subjugate certain groups of people?
Collecting Data
Statistics in governments often leave certain groups unaccounted for due to segregation.
Although statistics that are overlooked show minorities having a huge impact in society.
Informal economic activities that are not tracked is often associated with a certain group.

13. How do power relationships subjugate certain groups of people?
Dowry Deaths
During a marriage, the bride’s father must give the grooms parents anything they ask for.
If the father cannot meet the demands of the marriage agreement then the bride is either brutally punished or killed.