GEO
101 World Human Geography
Spring 2011
Lecture Outline
Matters!
Ethnicity, "Race" and Geography
Before Lecture
Reading assignment for today:
Greiner pp. 160-181
Important Concepts from the textbook you should review before lecture
(write a short definition): identity,
race, social construction, racism, ideology, insitutional discrimination,
idea that race makes place and place makes race (Figure 6.4), apartheid,
ethnicity, ethnic group, discourse, ethnoscape, assimilation, pluralism,
heterolocalism, ethnic neighborhoods, location quotent, symbolic ethnicity,
ethnic conflict, environmental justice.
Ethnicity 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?
"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 Dangers of "Flying While Arab"
- Deadly Consequences of looking vaguely "Middle Eastern" in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time
The importance of social space and spatiality
Ideas about "racial difference" are built into landscape and landscapes in turn reinforce ideas about "racial difference."
After Lecture
What was the main point of today's lecture?
Important concepts covered in this lecture (write a short definition):
One thing I did not fully understand today is:
What did I learn today that I did not know before?