Chapter 5: Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, And Sexuality



What is Identity, and how are Identities Constructed? P. 145-1541A culture’s assumptions about the differences between men and women, their character, roles and divisions of labor are referred to as________. Answer: 2What is “Identity” according to Geographer Gilliam Rose? Answer: 3How did we get the modern social construction of the term “race” to identify people? Answer: 4What is the term for the sense of superiority that is attached to “race?”Answer: 5The regional variation in the appearance of humans in clustered populations probably results from Answer: 6Skin color is a matter of pigmentation, a protective element against strong radiation from the sun. What is this pigment called? Answer: 7Which vitamin is stimulated into production by the same ultraviolet radiation intercepted by darkly pigmented skin? Answer: 8The USA has become increasingly “non-white” as a result of what two major factors?Answer: Answer: 9According to Table 5.1, what percentage of Americans categorized themselves in the 2010 as two or more races?Answer:10What groups of people were excluded by the use of the word “Hispanic” in the 2010 USA Census?Answer: 11According to the 2010 USA Census, which city in the USA was the most residentially segregated for African Americans?Answer: 12Overall, is residential segregation increasing or decreasing in the USA? Explain.Answer: 13According to the 2000 USA Census, which city in the southwest was the most residentially segregated for American Indians?Answer: 14Give some examples of how we see ourselves at the individual scale?Answer: 15Give some examples of how we see ourselves at the local scale? Answer: 16Give some examples of how we see ourselves at the regional scale? Answer: 17Give some examples of how we see ourselves at the national scale?Answer: 18Give some examples of how we see ourselves at the global scale?Answer: 19The majority of New York’s 2.2 million “Hispanics” come from what two countries? Answer: Answer: 20In New York, Puerto Ricans moved into the Jewish neighborhood of East Harlem and assumed a dominant presence in the neighborhood. This process is best described as _________?Answer: How do Places Affect Identity and How can we see Identities in Places? P.155-15821What two elements greatly affect ethnic identity? Answer: Answer: 22According to the map (Figure 5.9), in 1925, Mexicali’s Chinatown what was the major economic activity of the Chinese located near army headquarters?Answer: 23What is the term used to describe places that are “designed” either for women or men? Answer: 24Geographers, Elder, Knopp, and Nast created a term that refers to theories that explain or inform our understanding of sexuality and space. What is this term called?Answer: 25According to the map, (Figure 5.10), what two areas have the highest concentrations of same-sex households? Answer: Answer: How Does Geography Reflect and Shape Power Relationships Amon Groups of People? P. 159-17026Groups in Northern Ireland, and gangs in major cities in the USA both use similar tactics to create “exclusive” areas? What do they use to mark their territory? Answer: 27Prior to the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution how were slaves counted for representation in the House of Representatives? Answer: 28In the USA, Gross National Income is the most commonly used statistic on productivity that counts the monetary worth of what is produced within a country plus income received from investments outside the country. What two major economic contributions of women does the GNI not include? Answer: Answer: 29Finish the sentence: The proportion of women in the labor force grew in all regions reported by the United Nations except in______________ and in ______________. Answer: Answer: 30How did parts of South Africa and Zimbabwe become demographically “feminized”?Answer: 31What percentage of food in Sub-Saharan Africa is produced by women? Answer: 32How did the government of Kenya stimulate tea production? Answer: 33When dowry contracts are broken in India, how are women affected?Answer: 34In 1910, how did the city of Oakland, CA ethnically segregate the Chinese? (in italics)Answer: 35In 1970, South Central Los Angeles was 90% black. Now it is split evenly with what other ethnic group?Answer: 36What is the ethnicity of many of the small business owners in South Central Los Angeles? Answer: ................
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