Chapter 5 Identity, Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality

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

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

7. 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? Power Relations • 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.