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Jun 27, 2020 · Ethnicity and race have strong spatial dimensions. Both races and ethnicities have associated places and spatial interactions. A person’s ability to navigate and use space is contingent upon many factors- wealth, gender, and race/ethnicity. Anything that sets limits on a person’s movement is fair game for geographic study.
- 1 The Bases of Ethnicity
- 2 Race
- 3 How Are Ethnicity and Race Different?
- 4 Specifically Ethnic
- 5 Hispanic Ethnicity in The United States
Ethnicity is identification through language, religion, collective history, national origin, or other cultural characteristics. A cultural characteristic or a set of characteristics is the constituent element of an ethnicity. Another way of thinking of an ethnicity is as a nation or a people. In many parts of the world, ethnic differences are the b...
The central question around race is simple: “Does race even exist?” Depending on how the question is framed, the answer can be either yes or no. If race is being used in a human context in the same way that species is used in an animal context, then race does not exist. Humans are just too similar as a population. If the question is rephrased as, “...
People tend to have difficulties with the distinctions. Let’s start with the easiest racial category in the United States- African American. Most people understand that the origin of the African American or Black population of the United States is African. That is the race part. Now, the ethnic part appears to be exactly the same thing, and it almo...
The United States is a multiethnic and multiracial society. The country has recognized this from the very beginning, and the U.S. Census has been a record of ethnic representation for the U.S. since 1790. Here are the current racial categories (Figure 7.1). Figure 7.1 | U.S. Racial Makeup according to the United States Census of 2016 1 Author | Dav...
Since 1976, the United States government has required the collection and analysis of data for only one ethnicity: “Americans of Spanish origin or descent.” The term used to designate this ethnicity is Hispanic. It is a reference to the Roman name for what is now modern Spain. Hispanics, however are generally not Spanish; they are people who origina...
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Apr 8, 2022 · For this first of three reports on Race and Ethnicity in Geography, I want to begin with one of the most significant moves in the last 5 years – the inception of the field of Black Geographies, written largely (though not exclusively) by Black 1 geographers. As Patricia Price (2011, 2013, 2015), Laura Pulido (2015, 2017, 2018), and Anne Bonds ...
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Feb 20, 2021 · An ethnicity is a socially constructed category, the traits and parameters of which can change depending on the prevailing social and political context. A situational ethnicity is an ethnic identity that is particular to a social setting or context. The various approaches to understanding ethnicity include primordialism, essentialism ...
Ethnicity and identity are largely about boundaries; in fact, there is no way to determine one’s identity—ethnic or otherwise—without reference to some sort of boundary. In approaching the study of ethnicity and identity, sociology, anthropology, and to a lesser extent political science and international relations tend to focus on the ...
The scholarship on ethnicity, race, and na-tionalism has become unsurveyably vast. Nu-merous articles in the various social science Annual Reviews have addressed particular themes, problems, and strands of research in this domain.1 Clearly, any review must be ruth-lessly selective. I focus on two trends of the past two decades (though both have ...
Apr 29, 2015 · By the mid-20th century, ethnicity was used as a way to describe group identity based on a sharing of beliefs, norms, traditions, and practices. Within geography, the study of ethnicity permeates through a number of subdisciplines that include cultural, social, historical, economic, political, and urban geography, and the work of geographers ...
