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Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality (Vocabulary (Gender - A…
Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality
What is Identity, and How Are Identities Constructed?
"Orient"
A place with supposedly mystical characteristics that were depicted and repeated in European art and literature
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The Scale of New York
New immigrants focus their attention on the streetscape, creating businesses to serve their community and reflect their culture
Different identities are claimed and assigned, identities that reflect local cultures and neighborhoods
Vocabulary
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Identifying against - We first define the "Other," and then we define ourselves
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Residential Segregation - The degree to which two or more groups live separately from one another, in different parts of the urban environment
Succession - New immigrants moving to low-income areas that are being gradually abandoned by older immigrant groups
Ethnicity - Identity stems from the notion that people are closely bounded, or even related, in a certain place over time
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Race
Sunlight stimulates the production of melanin, which protects skin from damaging ultraviolet rays
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Residential Segregation
Five statistical measurements of of segregation - evenness, exposure, concentrated, centralized, and clustered.
For each of the four identities they researched - American Indians and Alaska Natives; Asians, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders; Black/African Americans; and Hispanics/Latinos
Baltimore, Maryland is one of the more residentially integrated cities in the United States for Asians and also for Hispanics/Latinos
Identities Across Scale
Different identities at different scales - individual, local, regional, national, and global
Individual - daughter, brother, a golfer, or a student
Local - members of a community, leaders of a campus organization, or residents of a neighborhood
Regional - Southerners, north Georgians, Atlantans, Yankees living in the South, or as migrants from another region of the world.
National - American, college students, members of the national political party
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Just Who Counts?
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Women produce more than half of all the food, they build homes, dig wells, plant and harvest all crops, and make clothes.
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Vulnerable Populations
Vulnerability is fundamentally influenced by geographically specific social and environmental circumstances
Fieldwork is the best way to understand how power structures in society create vulnerable groups at the local scale, and how those vulnerable groups might be affected
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