Ethnicities Flashcards
Race definition
Identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor
Why does distribution of skin color matter to geographers
Determined where they reside, attend school, seen their ,how spend leisure time, and perform life’s daily activities
Every 10 years the us census bureau does what
Conducts an enumeration of
Asian: Americans from countries in Asia
African American: Americans who identify as a group with an extensive cultural tradition with origins in Africa
Hispanic: a,ericans from Spanish speaking countries
Ethnic groups may live in particular ….and particular …. Within cities or states , these generally are
Region, communities
Hispanics: clustered in southwest
African Americans: clustered in southeast
Asian Americans: clustered in west
Urban scale + examples
African Americans and Hispanics are highly clustered in urban areas
Chicago: south and west, African American clusters
La: AA in south central
Hispanics: east
Asians: south and west
Explain international migration of each
AA forced to migrate to Western Hemisphere as slaves during 18th century
Hispanics and Asians: voluntary to us in late 20th and early 21st
Examples of Africans being sent to us
Portuguese from Angola and Mozambique to Brazil
Coastal strip of west Africa between Liberia and Congo and sent them to central and South America
Latin America and Asian voluntary migration examples
Immigration from Mexico and Puerto Rico in 1970s
Third largest group from Cuba
Asians
China, India, Philippines, Korea, Vietnam
Two distinct internal migration of Africans during the 20th century
From Interregional south to northern cities during first half
From intraregional inner city ghettos to outer city and inner suburban during second half
Interregional of African Americans why did they stay in the south during late nineteenth century after freed
Worked as sharecroppers -work field rented from landowner and pays by giving over share of crops
What were the lush and pull factors for migration to the north
How did they travel
Push factors were the mechanization of agriculture
Pull were manufacturing jobs in the north
Bus or car along long roads
Intraregional migration, where did they cluster when they first go there
In existing neighborhoods where Africans already lived
-ghettos which grew along major avenues
What happened when blacks came to white neighborhoods
Whites fled like Detroit pop. Which went down 1.5 mill. From 1950-2000
Ethnicity definition
Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth
