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Ethnicity

Ethnicity. Ethnicity: Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions (Rubenstein)

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Ethnicity

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  1. Ethnicity

  2. Ethnicity: Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions (Rubenstein) • Ethnicity: affiliation with a group whose racial, cultural, religious, or linguistic characteristics or national origins distinguish it from a larger population within which it is found (Fellman)

  3. Ethnocentrism: a tendency to evaluate other culture’s against the standards of one’s own (Fellman 179)

  4. State • Nation • Nation – State • Nationalism • Empire

  5. Races • White • Black • Asian • Native American • Pacific Islander

  6. White Black or African Am. Asian American Indian or Native Alaskan Asian Indian Chinese Filipino Japanese Korean Vietnamese Other Asian Native Hawaiian Guamanian or Chamorro Samoan Other Pacific Islander Other race Recognized Races by US Census

  7. Distribution of the B blood type allele among humans  • Using the B blood type for defining races, Australian Aborigines would be lumped together with most Native Americans.  Some Africans would be in the same race as Europeans while others would be categorized with Asians. http://anthro.palomar.edu/ethnicity/ethnic_1.htm

  8. Other terms • Hispanic – from a Spanish-speaking country • Latino – from a Latin American country

  9. Hispanic & Latinos can be of any race – • Argentina – white • Mexico – Native American

  10. Distribution of Ethnicities in US

  11. 1.   There was no "decline to state" option allowed for "race" designation forthe year 2000 Census. 2. 97% of the people who reported that they were "some other race" saidthat they were also "Hispanic or Latino" in terms of ethnicity.  3. There are 57 possible combinations of 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 races that wereallowed.  93% of  the people who reported more than one race,  reportedonly two.  The most common combination was "white" with some other"race.“ 4. 48% of Hispanics reported that they were "white" and 42% said theywere "some other race." http://anthro.palomar.edu/ethnicity/ethnic_1.htm

  12. Af-am • Reflects migration to north in early 20th century

  13. His-am

  14. Asia-am

  15. Amerindian, Eskimo, & Aleut

  16. Ethnic groups in US tend to cluster in cities (Rubenstein 222) • Why?? • Ravenstein’s Laws

  17. Race in the United States • “separate but equal” doctrine – Plessy vs. Ferguson, 1896 • Brown vs. BOE, Topeka KS, 1954 • “white flight” – 1950’s-1960’s • Blockbusting – Real Estate Agents encourage white neighbors to sell at a lost, then re-sell higher to African-Americans desperate to escape inner-city

  18. World Examples

  19. Apartheid • South Africa – 4 races • White • Black • Mixed white and black (colored) • Asian • Each race had different legal status • International pressure to end starting in 1970’s • Apartheid laws ended in 1991

  20. Belgium • Dutch-speaking Flemish • French-speaking Walloons • Both consider to be Belgian nationality

  21. United Kingdom • Multinational • England • Scotland • Wales • Northern Ireland • Scotland and Wales have separate elected governments • Each have own national soccer teams World Cup 2010 Teams

  22. China

  23. European colonial empires in 1938 http://anthro.palomar.edu/ethnicity/ethnic_1.htm

  24. Ethnic Conflicts

  25. Recent hotspots of severe racism   http://anthro.palomar.edu/ethnicity/ethnic_1.htm

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