AP Human Geography Identity
Ethonological balance
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Gender
A cultures assumptions about the differences between men and women: their characters, the roles they play in society, what they represent.
Racist
A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism.
Sharecropper
A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops.
Sense of place
A place infused with meaning and feeling
Triangular Slave Trade
A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa.
Balkanized
A small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other.
Inuit
A specific group of people that live up north in canada.
Shaman
A spiritual leader/preist/medicine man
Nation-state
A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.
Ethnosphere
All the different ethnicity in the world.
Power relationships
Assumptions and structure about who is in control.
Ethnic groups in LA
Barriozation, cultural landscape changes to reflect changing populations, strife usually tied to economic change
Self-determination
Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.
Ehnicide
Death of an ethnicity
Residential Segregation
Degree to which two or more group live separately form one another in different parts of the urban environment.
GNP and Women
Does not count unpaid work of women in the household and work done by rural women in poorer countries.
Nisha Sharma
Grooms family asked for more dowry so she called the police.
Identity
How we make sense of ourselves
Race
Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor. Is a perfect example of how identities are build geographically.
Nationality
Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there.
Fairfax
Indians and Pakistanis (they live peacefully side by side in Fairfax but there is a lot of tension between the actual countries)
Puerto Ricans kicking out the Jews is an example of....
Invasion and Succession
Barrioization
It is defined by geographer James Curtis as the "dramatic" increase in Hispanic population in a given neighborhood. It is most likely to be related to the situation in the United States of America. The origin of the word is barrio, which is the Spanish word for neighborhood.
LA between 1990 and 2000
Large population growth because of migration hispanics, black people and asians. (Barrioization)
Apartheid
Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.
Nationalism
Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality.
Gendered Space
Men and women separated
Dowry Deaths
Murders of brides when a dispute arises over dowry.
Invasion and Succession
New immigrants to a city often move to areas occupied but older immigrant groups.
Place
Particular articulations of those social relations as they have come together,over time, in that particular location.
Queer Theory
Political engagement of queers with the heteronormative.
Women in subsaharan Africa
Populate much of the rural areas, as men migrate to cities for work. Produce 70% of the region's food. Only a small percentage of women have legal title to their land.
Informal economy
Private, often home-based activities such as tailoring, beer brewing, food preparation, or vegetable gardening.
Balkanization
Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.
Ethnic Cleansing
Process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.
Space
Social relations stretched out
Multi-ethnic state
State that contains more than one ethnicity.
Multinational state
State that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peaceful by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.
Racism
The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial difference produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.
Colonialism
The policy or practice of getting full or partial political control over other counties (dominant race)
Gendered
There are many places that are gendered (places designed for women and places designed for men)
Identifying Against
We first define the "other" and then we define ourselves as "not the other."
Succession
When another racial group moves into an area with an older immigrant group.
Ethnicity
Where people share not only a culture but the same ethnos (meaning people or nation in greek), their belongingness or binding into group and place, and their sense of cultural identity. Ethnicity implies that ancient relations form between people over time OR identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions.
Women in sub saharan africa work on fields while men watch is an example of....
gendered space
Race vs. Ethnicity
race related to a persons appearance and ethnicity refers to nationality, culture, and ancestry.
Sexuality and space
where people with a shared sexual identity cluster and how they create a space for themselves
Racial Categories
who does not ask? who is not allowed to ask what race you are?
