ethnicity. ethnicity religion language racial characteristics geographic origin common history
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■Ethnicity differs from culture because it is based on how people choose to identify themselves. ■Ethnicity can include culture, but culture cannot include ethnicity because ethnicity is a broader concept. ■The ethnic group itself defines what constitutes membership in the group.TRANSCRIPT
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ETHNICITY
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Ethnicity
Religion
Language
Racial characterist
icsGeographic Origin
Common History
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■Ethnicity differs from culture because it is based on how people choose to identify themselves.
■Ethnicity can include culture, but culture cannot include ethnicity because ethnicity is a broader concept.
■The ethnic group itself defines what constitutes membership in the group.
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Ethnicity vs. Race■Ethnicity is identity with a group of people
who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth.
■Race is identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor. – Distribution of persons of color matters
to geographers.■One’s skin color can determine where they
reside, attend school, spend their leisure time, and perform life’s daily activities in some societies.
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Every 10 years, the U.S. Bureau of the Census conducts an enumeration of the population.
■Its survey identifies three main ethnicities.1. Asian American
■Americans from many countries in Asia2. African American
■Americans who identify as a group with an extensive cultural tradition with origins in Africa
3. Hispanic■Americans who are from Spanish-speaking
countries.
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DISTRIBUTION OF ETHNICITIES IN
THE UNITED STATES
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REGIONAL SCALE
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Hispanics: Clustered in the Southwest
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African Americans: Clustered in the Southeast
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Asian Americans: Clustered in the West
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STATE SCALE
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Distribution of African Americans
■African Americans comprise 85% of the population in Detroit
■7% of the population in the rest of the state
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URBAN SCALE
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The Geography of Ethnicity Ethnic Neighborhood
• Areas within cities that have concentrated populations of a particular ethnic group
Ghetto• Originally, an Italian term for areas of cities where
Jews were forced to live• More broadly, poor urban neighborhoods where
minorities are concentrated Ethnoburb
• A suburban area with a strong ethnic concentration Ethnic Island
• Areas of ethnic concentration in rural or non-urban areas
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Ethnic groups may live in particular communities within cities and states.
■African Americans and Hispanics are highly clustered in urban areas.– Ex: Chicago
■Neighborhoods on the south and west side of Chicago have extensive African American clusters.
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Ethnic groups may live in particular communities within cities and states.
■Ex: Los Angeles – African Americans in
south-central L.A.– Hispanics in east L.A.– Asian Americans in south
and west L.A.
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WHY DO ETHNICITIES
HAVE DISTINCTIVE
DISTRIBUTIONS?
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Ancestral Groups in the U.S.
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INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
Forced and Voluntary
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Forced Migration from Africa■Different
European countries acquired slaves from various regions of Africa, then sent them to the Americas.
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Voluntary Migration from Asia
■Asia– Ranking of sending
countries1. China 2. India 3. Philippines 4. Korea 5. Vietnam
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Voluntary Migration from Latin America
■Latin America– Immigration from
Mexico and Puerto Rico fueled rapid growth of Hispanics in the United States beginning in the 1970s.
– Third largest group of Hispanics came to United States from Cuba.
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INTERNAL MIGRATION
Interregional vs. Intraregional
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Interregional Migration
■Freed as slaves, most African Americans remained in the rural South during the late nineteenth century, working as sharecroppers—works fields rented from a landowner and pays rent by turning over a share of the crops to him or her.■Mechanization of agriculture served as a push factor, while manufacturing jobs in the north acted as a pull factor that encouraged African Americans to migrate to the northern cities (The Great Migration).
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Intraregional Migration■African Americans arriving at northern cities clustered in neighborhoods where existing African Americans already lived.•Areas came to be known as ghettos.
■Over time, ghettos grew outward typically along major avenues that radiated out from the center of city. (“white flight”■Many whites fled their neighborhoods when blacks began moving in nearby.•Ex. Detroit
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SEGREGATION BY ETHNICITY AND RACE
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The Life of an Ethnic Group Acculturation• The process of learning to operate in a new
culture Assimilation• The adoption of a new culture and the
abandonment of aspects of the original culture
• Cultural assimilation– Immigrant has adopted enough culture
traits to be a functioning member of a new culture
• Functional assimilation– The fusion of an ethnic group with the
majority society
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Segregation by Ethnicity and Race
■ U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Louisiana law that required blacks and whites to ride in separate railway cars.– Plessy v. Ferguson, states that
the law was constitutional, because it provided separate, but equal, treatment of blacks and whites.
■ Southern states enacted a set of laws commonly referred to as the “Jim Crow” laws to segregate black from whites.– Ex: Blacks had to sit in the
backs of buses, and shops, restaurants, and hotels could choose to serve only whites.
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South Africa Apartheid■ 1948: Afrikaners (white
descendants from Holland) enacted a legal system intended to segregate its people called apartheid.
■ Newborn baby was classified as being one of four races: 1) black 2) white 3) colored 4) Asian– Each race had a
different legal status and associated rights in regards to where one could live, attend school, work, shop, and own land.
■ 1991: Apartheid laws repealed.
■ 1994: Nelson Mandela elected president.
■ Legacy of apartheid lingers through economic status.