Chapter FiveIdentity

Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality

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1. What is identity and how are identities constructed?

2. How do places affect identity, and how can we see identities in places?

3. How do power relationships subjugate certain groups of people?

Identityn., pl., -ties.

The set of behavioral or personal characteristics by which an individual is recognizable as a

member of a group.

How we make sense of ourselves

How People are Identified

Identifying against is defining the other the defining yourself as

“not the other”

Racismthe identifying of a people based on

skin color and treating them differently

“social-economic differences fuel racism” -Benedict Anderson

In the US

White Populations

prosper economically

over Black and Hispanic

Populations

Racism is based primarily on past events and superiority

HISTORY

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Residential segregation is the “degree to which two or more groups live

separately from one another, in different parts of an urban environment”

- Douglas Massey & Nancy Denton

Forms

• (evenness)- over represented in one area, under represented in another

• (exposed)- exposure to majority is limited• (concentrated)- spatially concentrated• (centralized)- centralized around and urban

core• (clustered)- tightly clustered to form a large

contiguous enclave

In EuropeThe gypsy

population is forced to leave a region

after a certain period of time.

The Tamil population was pushed to north

eastern Sri Lanka.

.Tamil

minority

Non-Tamilmajority

Ethnicity is an affiliation

within a group of people by

common ancestry

Space is social

relations stretched out

Localm e m b e rs o f co m m u n ity

RegionalS o uth ern er

N o rth G e org ianY a nkee

NationalA m e rican

C o lleg e S tud e n tP o lit ica l P a ry

GlobalW e a lthy

E du ca tedW e s te rn

S ca le Id e n tity H ie arch y (sm a ll to b ig )

Place is “particular articulations of those social relations as they have

come together in a particular location”

- Doreen Massey and Pat Jess

Queer Theory has to do with interrelationships between sexuality and

geographic space

• Controversy with the use of the negatively used word “queer”

• It is the relationship of a homosexual population with a heterosexual population

Gendered, is when a region is dominated by either men or women.

• Most LDC are male gendered areas

• Gendered areas are based on…..– Education

– Population

– Economic and Political status

• New laws have been produce to reduce gendered areas

• Education being provided for women in the Middle East

• Most MDC the region is dominated by both men and women equally.

Power RelationsPeople create places where they limit the

access of other people

• Shape Cultural Landscape

• subjugate groups of people with….. -Force/ Violence -Propaganda

• Nazi Germany• India with the Dowry

Deaths • Sri Lanka and the

Tamils• Blacks in America

before 1940

Dowry Deaths

Jewish Gettos

Key Terms *Remember Them*Sense of Place- the meaning and feeling of placeResidential Segregation- the degree two groups are separated from one anotherBarriozation- the dramatic increase in Hispanic population in a give neighborhoodGendered- an area that dominated by men or womenDowry Deaths- a dispute for money between families of a married couple in India, where violence is used on the wifeIdentity- how we make sense of ourselvesRacism- the judging and treaty someone based on raceQueer Theory- interrelationships between sexuality and geographic space Invasion and Succession- new immigrants occupy areas, occupied by older immigrantsEthnicity- affiliation within a group of people by common ancestry and culture

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