Unit 5: Vocabulary Flashcards
Defined by geographer James Curtis as the dramatic increase in Hispanic population in a given neighborhood; referring to barrio, the Spanish word for neighborhood.
Barrioization
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.
Dowry death
Affiliation or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture.
Ethnicity
Social differences between men and women, 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.
Gender
In terms of a place, whether the place is designed for or claimed by men or women.
Gendered
Constructing an identity by first defining the “other” and then defining ourselves as “not the other.”
Identifying against
Defined by geographer Gillian Rose as “how we make sense of ourselves;” how people see themselves at different scales.
Identity
The fourth theme of geography as defined by the Geography Educational National Implementaion Project; uniqueness of a location.
Place
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.
Queer theory
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 color) are more important than others (e.g., height, etc.), even though the latter might have more significance in terms of human activity. With its 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.
Race
Frequently referred to as a system or attitude toward visible differences in individuals, racism is an ideology of difference that ascribes (predominantly negative) significance and meaning to culturally, socially, and politically constructed ideas based on phenotypical features.
Racism
Defined by geographers 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.
Residential segregation
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.
Sense of place
Defined by Doreen Massey and Pat Jess as “social relations stretched out.”
Space
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.
Succession
