5. Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, And Sexuality

Question 1

gender

Answer 1

a culture’s assumptions about the differences between men and women: their ‘characters,’ the roles they play in society, what they represent

Question 2

Identity

Answer 2

How we make sense of ourselves.

• snapshot of who we are at the moment
• fluid, constantly changing, shifting, and becoming
• our experiences in places and our perceptions of places help us make sense of who we are

Question 3

identifying against

Answer 3

to identify against, we first define the “other” and then we define ourselves in opposing terms

Question 4

race

Answer 4

a categorization of humans based on skin color and other physical characteristics
-racial categories are constructed, fluid, overlapping, and incomplete

Question 5

racism

Answer 5

superiority attached to race

Question 6

residential segregation

Answer 6

degree to which two or more groups live separately from one another, in different parts of the urban environment

Question 7

succession

Answer 7

process by which new immigrants to a city move to and dominate or take over areas or neighborhoods occupied by older immigrant groups

Question 8

sense of place

Answer 8

infusing a place “with meaning and feeling”

-fluid; it changes as the place changes and as we change

Question 9

ethnicity

Answer 9

affiliation or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture

• people are closely bounded, even related, in a certain place over time.
• sways and shifts across scales, across places, and across time

Question 10

space

Answer 10

social relations stretched out

Question 11

place

Answer 11

particular articulations of those social relations as they have come together, over time, in that particular location

Question 12

gendered

Answer 12

places seen as being appropriate for women or for men

Question 13

queer theory

Answer 13

theory defined by geographers Glen Elder, Lawrence Knopp, and Heidi Nast that highlights the contextual nature of opposition to the heteronormative and focuses on the political engagement of “queers” with the heteronormative

Question 14

power relationships

Answer 14

are assumptions and structures about who is in control and who has power over others

Question 15

dowry deaths

Answer 15

when the bride is brutally punished, often burned, or killed for her father’s failure to fulfill a marriage agreement

Question 16

barrioization

Answer 16

defined by geographer James Curtis as the dramatic increase in Hispanic population in a given neighbourhood; referring to barrio, the Spanish word for neighbourhood