where are ethnicities distrubuted Flashcards
ethnicity group
a group that share cultural background
where are ethnicities distributed?
clustered in specific areas
or match the boundaries of a coutry
2 most numerous ethnicities in USA
hispanic/latino 15%
african americans 13%
percent hispanic latinos in USA
15%
percent african americans in USA
13%
percent asian americans in USA
4%
percent american india
1%
where are hispanics in USA
southwest
1/3+ arizona, new mexico, and texas pop
1/4 california
chicanos
come from mexico
african americans are where in USA
southeast
1/4 alabama georgia louisiana, maryland, south carolina pop
1/3 mississippi pop
asian americans where in the USA?
west 40% hawaii 1/2 of asian american pop live in california chinese = 1/4 asian americans indians, filipinos, 1/5 of AAs korean vietnamese = 1/10 of AAs
american indians and alaska natives where in the USA
southwest and plains states
african americans and hispanics are highly clustered in rural or urban cities
urban cities
in detroit african americans are —percent of the pop
african americas form — of the rest of michigan
85%
and 7%
highest pop of hispanic states
california and texas
ethnc identity is preserved through——in europe immigrants descendents
religion
food
and cultural traditions rather than location
los angeles african american cluster
south central
los angeles hispanic cluster
east
why is los angels special
different ethnicity groups are clustered in diffrent areas
los angeles asian american custer
south and westr
three major african american migrations
1) slave tradde-african slaves forced to migrate to american colonies 18th century
2) usa south to north 1st half of 20th century
3) immigration from ghettos to other urban neighborhoods 2nd half of 20th entury and 1st decade of 21st century
first african americans arrived in —-on a —-ship
jamestown virginia
on a
dutch ship
united states baned slaves from being brought in the country when
1808
slavery 2,000 years ago was widespread in the
roman empire
serfs
laboeres working land in the feudal system
they had to give a portion of their crops and provide services to the landlord
feudal system
laborers working the land (serfs) were bound to the land and not free to migrate anywhere else.
how europeans cause of slaveryin usa
europeans owning plantations in the americas sent slaves there
how did slavery start
east and west coast africans took advantage of the superior weapons and conquered groups living further inland and sold them to europeans
which nationalities first participated in the save trad
portugal and spanish
portugal shiped slaves from— to—-
angola and mozanbique to brazil
other euroean countires mainly shipped slaves from — to —
coastal strip of west africa between liberia and the congo to the caribbean islands ad central and south amaerica
triangular slavetrade
1) ships from europ to africa had cloth and trade goods to buy slaves
2) africa to western hemisphere (mostly c aribean) had slave sand gold
3) carribean to eorupe carried sugar and molasses
rectangular trade pattern
extra step) caribbean-> north amreican colonies carry molasses
() rum carried to europe
1863
lincol issues the emancipation proclamation
emancipation proclamation
frees slave in 11 confederate states
thirteenth admendment
outlaws slavery
sharecroppers
rents fields paid for by giving a share of crops to te landowner
seeds tools food and living quarters paid by credit which is paid by crops
why migration to the north
sharecroppers less common becaus e of technology and wre pushed off farms.
where they went to cities in the north for jobs (war effort)
east coast AA migration
from carolinas and other south atlantic states to baltimore philadelphia, new yorkm and northesastern cities (I-95)
east central migration AA
alabama and east tennessee
north to
detroit (I-75 ) and
cleveland (I-77)
west central AA migration
mississippi and west tennessee
north to
st. louis/chicago (I-55)
southwest AA migration
texas west to california (I-10 and I-20)
two main waves of AA mingration north
1) 1910-20 before and after WW1
2) 1940-50 before and after WWII
ghettos
clusters of african americans in big cities
named after neighborhoods jews were forced to live in in the middle ages
ghetto emigration
tight packed ghettos to adjacent neighborhoods in 1950-60
