Week 9 Flashcards
Define a social ghetto
A location of geographic and social isolation, usually of a marginalized group - underlain by poverty
Define a physiological ghetto
Metabolic effects of social marginalization, in which life history and metabolism shifts (negatively) and having intergenerational effects
What was the first ghetto? (Include date)
1179 AD - Catholic church declares that Jews should be exiled to the Ghetto Nuovo in Venice
How were Jews physically segregated in the first ghettos?
First socially separated by people in power, then became physically separated when they put up freaking walls
Define a modern ghetto
Distinguished by a low social rank and that rank being imposed upon them. Defines the relationship between the group living within the ghetto and society at large
How do modern ghettos represent a legacy of institutionalized segregation?
Mass migration of African Americans moving north post slavery to work in factories to meet WW1 production demands, white people were mad and made them live in segregated areas. A lot of them haven’t left
How did white people keep black people out of their neighbourhoods during and post WW1
Implemented policies to prevent black tenants from renting or owning property in white neighbourhoods
What % segregated was baltimore in 1940?
90%
Describe the typical pattern of modern ghettos - who lives where?
Poorer downtown, rich people tend to move away to the suburbs
In saskatoon, how many elementary schools are within walking distance from fast food/unhealthy food outlets in 1. low income, and 2. high income areas (%)
- 71%
- 35%
Segregation tends to increase exposure to this niche
obesogenic niche
What are four examples of social situations discussed in lecture in which height was pronounced in low and high income individuals
- black death in europe
- industrial labourers
- imperialisms indentured labourers
- apartheid movement
