Unit 3: Chapter 5 Vocab Flashcards
Gender
Social differences between men and woman, rather than the anatomical, biological differences between the sexes. Notions of gender differences- that is, what is considered “feminine” or “masculine”- vary greatly over time and space
Identity
Defined by geographer Gillian Rose as “how we make sense of ourselves;” how people see themselves at different scales
Identifying against
constructing an identity by first defining the “other” and then defining ourselves as “not the other”
Race
A categorization of humans based on skin color and other physical characteristics. Racial categories are social and political constructions because they are based on ideas that some biological differences (especially skin colors) are more important than others (e.g., height, etc.), even though the latter might have more significance in terms of human activity. With it’s roots in sixteenth-century England, the term is closely associated with European colonialism because of the impact of that development on global understandings of racial differences
Racism
Frequently referred to as a system or attitude toward visible differences in individuals, racism is an ideology of difference that ascribes (predominately negative) significance and meaning to culturally, socially, and politically constructed ideas based on phenotypical features
Residential Segregation
Defined by geographer Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton as the degree to which two or more groups live separately from one another, in different parts of an urban environment
Sense of Place
State of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place or by labeling a place with a certain character
Barrioization
Defined by geographer James Curtis as the dramatic increase in Hispanic population in a given neighborhood; referring to barrio, the Spanish word for neighborhood
Place
The fourth theme of geography; uniqueness of a location
Space
Defined by Doreen Massey and Pat Jess as “social relations stretched out.”
Queer theory
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
Succession
Process by which new immigrants to a city move to and dominate or take over areas or neighborhoods occupied by older immigrant groups. For example, in the early twentieth century, Puerto Ricans “invaded” the immigrant Jewish neighborhood of East Harlem and successfully took over the neighborhood or “succeeded” the immigrant Jewish population as the dominant immigrant group in the neighborhood
Ethnicity
Affiliation or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture
Gendered
In terms of a place, whether the place is designed for or claimed by men or women
Dowry Deaths
In the context of arranged marriages in India, disputes over the price to be paid by the family of the bride to the father of the groom (the dowry) have, in some extreme cases, led to the death of the bride
