Where are ethnicities distributed

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Where are ethnicities distributed?

• Chapter 7, key issue 1

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What is ethnicity?

• Ethnicity is an identity with a group of people
  who share cultural traditions of a particular
  hearth
• Ethnicity is different from race
• Race is biological, ethnicity is cultural
• The conflict between local diversity and
  globalization is an element of ethnicity
• Multiculturalism is also part of current ethnic
  patterns

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American Ethnicity

• Due to widespread migration throughout American
  history America has many different ethnic groups
• Ethnic groups tend to have distinct migration
  patterns and areas of settlement
• Ethnic groups tend to also end up in major urban
  areas

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Maps of ethnicity

• http//www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/pct_black.
  pdf
• http//www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/pct_asian.
  pdf
• http//www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/pct_hispan
  ic.pdf
• http//www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/pct_AIAN.p
  df
• http//www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/no_mnrty.p
  df

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African American Migration Patterns Slavery

• Between 1710-1810 10m African slaves brought to
  the Western Hemisphere
• Slaves were brought to the American South
  beginning in 1619 for production of cash crops
  such as cotton and tobacco
• Importation ends in 1808, slavery ends in 1865
  with the defeat of the Confederacy after the
  Civil War

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African American Migration Patterns Emancipation

• Slaves were freed in 1865 but not economically
  rehabilitated
• Many became sharecroppers in the south
• In the early twentieth century the Great
  Migration began as African American families
  sought opportunities in the NE and Midwest

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Racism in the US

• America has had de jure and de facto racism
  throughout its history
• Legal racism included the following laws/court
  cases
• Dred Scott decision (1856)
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• Jim Crow laws

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Civil Rights Movement

• Civil Rights movement begins in the 1950s-60s
• Civil Rights have been extended to African
  Americans with the following laws
• 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• Civil Rights Act (1964)
• Voting Rights Act (1965)

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Rosa Parks Bus
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Apartheid in South Africa

• South Africa created a system called apartheid
  to separate black and white South Africans in
  1948
• A white minority governed SA until 1991
• Apartheid was dismantled and elections held in
  94 installed Nelson Mandela as President
• Issues such as economic disparity remain