Assignment Guide: Chapter 5
Assignment Guide: Chapter 5
Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality
Major Themes
1. What is identity and how are identities constructed?
2. How do places affect identity, and how can we see identities in places?
3. How do power relationships subjugate certain groups of people?
Thursday, 12/17
Exam Review (10 minutes)
State of the World Atlas, pp. 44-45.
Penguin Atlas of War and Peace, pp. 16-17.
Friday, 12/18 Discussion questions for pages 125-127.
1. Analyze Mona Domosh and Joni Seager’s definition of gender with reference to brick-making and industrial labor in Indonesia.
2. Discuss the reasons for female emigration from rural areas in Indonesia to export production zones.
3. Identify the assumptions behind the gender division of labor in the United States.
4. State of Women in the World, introduction.
Monday, 1/4 DQs for pages 127-130.
5. Identify the various factors that contribute to the construction of our individual identities.
6. Examine Edward Said and James Blaut’s contributions to identity construction.
7. Identify the attributes that society typically refers to as “race”.
8. Discuss the various theories that have attempted to account for the different attributes that have developed among members of the human race.
9. Explain the reasons that in Brazil, siblings from the same parents might have different racial identities from not only their siblings but also their parents.
10. Examine the ways in which racial categories are assigned in a society.
11. Account for the increasingly “nonwhite” composition of the United States.
12. Discuss the significance of the US Census Bureau’s 2000 change of “Hispanic” to an ethnicity rather than a race.
13. Examine Table 5.2 on page 131 and answer the following questions.
a. Identify the racial and ethnic group that is expected to grow the most as a percentage of the U.S. population by 2050.
b. Identify the racial and ethnic that is expected to decline the most as a percentage of the U.S. population by 2050.
14. Analyze Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton’s definition of residential segregation.
Tuesday, 1/5 Patricia Williams, “False Prophets,” doc/20071119/williams
Wednesday, 1/6 DQs for pages 130-135.
15. Identify the five statistical categories that the U.S. Census Bureau adopted for measuring segregation.
16. Examine the findings of the 2002 Census Bureau report on residential segregation of African-Americans in the U.S. between 1980 and 2000.
17. Examine the findings of the 2002 Census Bureau report on residential segregation of Asians, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. between 1980 and 2000.
18. Account for the racial divide in segregated cities.
19. Define various aspects of your individual local identity.
20. Define your regional identity.
21. Identify possible categories of national identity.
22. Explain the difficulty in categorizing local, regional, national, and global identities.
23. Explain the invasion and succession process of Puerto Rican immigrants in New York city.
24. Discuss the visual evidence of ethnic neighborhoods in the cultural landscape of New York City.
25. Describe the cultural landscape of any ethnic neighborhood in Orange County.
Thursday, 1/7 DQs for pages 135-139.
26. Explain what geographers such as Gillian Rose mean by “sense of place.”
27. Analyze the derivation and contemporary meaning of ethnicity.
28. Discuss the irony of “Swiss American” ethnic identity.
29. How does the example of the South Asian immigrant community of Fairfax County, Virginia, illustrate the effects of scale and place on ethnic identity.
30. Examine the map of Mexicali’s Chinatown (from 1925) on page 137 and answer the following questions.
a. How many Chinese Laundromats?
b. How many Chinese recreational centers were there?
c. Explain the significance of the Chinese Masonic Temple.
31. Identify the mission of the China Association in Mexicali.
32. Discuss Doreen Massey and Pat Jess’ ideas on the relationship between “space” and “place.”
33. Explain Glen Elder, Lawrence Knopp, and Heidi Nast’s use of the term heteronormative.
Friday, 1/8 SOW Atlas, pages 66-67 and 62-63.
Monday, 1/11 Discussion questions for pages 139-142
34. Define power relationships.
35. Discuss Massey and Jess’ concept of power relationships in the cultural landscape.
36. Explain Jim Crow laws in the context of power relationships.
37. Examine the ways in which people informally define certain spaces as belonging to members of certain groups.
38. Identify the assumptions that governments tend to make regarding household work.
39. Explain the economic concept of Gross National Income
40. Outline the varieties of productive work that women perform in LDCs that are normally not incorporated into official statistics
41. Analyse the vulnerability of women in the workforce during periods of stagnant or declining economies.
42. Why do rural regions of Subsaharan Africa tend to have a greater number of females in their populations.
43. Examine the forms of subjugation that Subsaharan women face.
44. Describe the circumstances under which dowry deaths might occur in India.
45. Identify steps the Indian government has taken to curtail dowry deaths.
46. Account for the failure of India’s state and national government to curtail dowry deaths.
47. Explain Nisha Sharma’s successful challenge to dowry sabotage from her fiance’s family.
48. How can the practice of dowry deaths and female infanticides be ended?
Tuesday, 1/12 DQs for pages 142-146
49. Discuss the ethnic development of Alameda County, California.
50. Evaluate the validity of the following thesis: “Asians provide an example of a model minority of the success that can come in America to a diligent, resourceful community.”
51. Identify the racial and ethnic configuration of the city of Los Angeles based on the 2000 census.
52. Account for the virtual disappearance of working class Whites from southeastern Los Angeles County.
53. Analyze the economic foundation that sustains the Hispanic community that now dominates southeast Los Angeles County.
54. Identify the elements of transformation of the cultural landscape of southeastern Los Angeles in the process of “barrioization”.
55. Identify the immediate cause for the outbreak of violence in Los Angeles on April 29, 1992.
56. Identify the trends illustrated in Figure 5.15.
57. Analyze the economic, political, and ethnic background to the violence of April 29, 1992.
Wednesday, 1/13 Essay Exchange
Thursday, 1/14 Essay Exam 5 [The multiple choice exam for this unit will be folded into a comprehensive exam for chapters 1-5 during finals week.]
1. What difficulties arise when trying to use the concept of race to discuss the population of the United States? Discuss issues of the scientific status of the race concept, the number of races, and the changing notions of what constitutes a race.
2. Discuss the role of women in the economies of sub-Saharan Africa.
3. Analyze, from a geographical and historical perspective, the social and spatial dynamics of the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
4. Southern California is the original home of four major fast-food chains: MacDonald’s, Jack-in-the-Box, Taco Bell, and Carl’s Jr. Examine the aspects of the regional culture of Southern California that have caused it to play such a significant role in the global development of fast-food.
5. Describe the three main folk housing styles that Fred Kniffen examined in his study. Explain the relationship between these housing styles and the physical geography of each region. Account for the diffusion of each style to particular regions of North America.
6. Assess the benefits and problems association with Time-space compression (David Harvey) and Time-space convergence (Donald Janelle). Include in your analysis an examination of the role that new technologies play in the rapid diffusion of popular culture.
South American Geography
|Countries |Cities |Landforms, Water Bodies and Mountains |
|Argentina |Asunción |Amazon River |
|Bolivia |Bogotá |Andes Mtns. |
|Brazil |Brasilia |Brazilian Highlands |
|Chile |Buenos Aires |Cape Horn |
|Colombia |Caracas |Falkland Islands |
|Ecuador |Cuzco |Lake Titicaca |
|French Guiana |Georgetown |Orinoco River |
|Guyana |La Paz |Pampa |
|Paraguay |Lima |Patagonia |
|Peru |Medellín |Paraná River |
|Suriname |Montevideo |Rio de la Plata |
|Uruguay |Quito |Strait of Magellan |
|Venezuela |Recife |Tierra del Fuego |
| |Rio de Janeiro | |
| |Santiago | |
| |Sao Paulo | |
................
................
In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.
To fulfill the demand for quickly locating and searching documents.
It is intelligent file search solution for home and business.