Race and Geography

Identity and Cultural Geography

• Biological vs. social/cultural difference
• Multiple identities and geographical context
• Identity, geography, and power

What is "race"?

Race is social not biological. Why?

• phenotype and genotype

"Race" is a social construct or ideology

• Definition of ideology

Racism

• Multiple types

How are ideas about racial difference socially and geographically defined?

Chinatown in Vancouver, B.C.

• How ideas about "Chineseness" Used to Construct Landscape
• How Landscape reinforced ideas about "Chineseness"

The Current Situation

The importance of social space and spatiality

Ideas about "racial difference" are built into landscape and landscapes in turn reinforce ideas about "racial difference."