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Ethnicity

Ethnicity. Not Race. What is Ethnicity?. Shared cultural tradition Common history Treasured cultural landscape Ties to religion/language. What is race? . Social construct based on skin color or other physical features Features likely because of physical landscape

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Ethnicity

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  1. Ethnicity Not Race

  2. What is Ethnicity? • Shared cultural tradition • Common history • Treasured cultural landscape • Ties to religion/language

  3. What is race? • Social construct based on skin color or other physical features • Features likely because of physical landscape • Warm climates – flat noses, Cold climates – long, slender noses • Melanin – absorption of Vitamin D. As you move closer to poles, melanin increases  skin becomes lighter

  4. Distribution of Ethnicities • Can be regional or in particular neighborhoods • But what causes the clustering of ethnicities?

  5. African American Population %

  6. Hispanic Population %

  7. Asian Population %

  8. African American Migration Patterns in US • Initially through forced migration and slave trade • Triangular slave trade • Europe  Africa = goods to buy slaves • Africa  Americas = slaves • Americas  Europe = molasses, rum, cotton, tobacco • Majority to Brazil and Caribbean

  9. Slavery to Freedom • Major movements to Northern industrial centers 1910-1920 and 1940-1950 (WWII and following) • Carolinas and Coast – Baltimore, Philly, N.Y. • Alabama & Tennessee – Detroit, Cleveland • Mississippi & W. Tennessee – St. Louis, Chicago • Texas - California

  10. Formation of Ghettos • Movement into neighborhoods with previous settlement (chain migration/enclave) • Highly dense populations then expansion • As area expands non-African Americans leave – White flight to suburbs

  11. Does the US classify race/ethnicity differently? • Asian American – race and ethnicity are similar • African American – can include Africans, Latin Americans, Asian groups • Hispanic – not a race, but is an ethnicity

  12. U.S. Census • White • Black, African-American, Negro • American Indian or Alaska Native • Asian Indian • Chinese • Filipino • Korean • Vietnamese • Other Asian • Native Hawaiian • Guamanian or Chamorro • Samoan • Other Pacific Islander • Other race

  13. Separate But Equal • In US – races could be segregated as long as services provided were equal – they were not • Plessy v Ferguson – Supreme Court said Louisiana’s laws were constitutional because of “equal” services • “Jim Crow” laws to segregate whites and African Americans

  14. “White Flight” • Brown v Board of Education– separate schools was unconstitutional because of inherent unequality • Whites respond by emigrating from cities and immigrating to suburbs • Kerner Commission – there exists in America two separate and unequal societies, one white and one black – 1968 • Has that changed much?

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