Chapter 5: Ethnic Geography

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Chapter 5 Ethnic Geography

• Homelands and Islands

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Terms and definitions

• Ethnic, ethnic group
• Race and Racism
• Acculturation just enough to get by..
• Assimilation submergence
• Immigrant and aboriginal groups
• Ethnic geography the where of group-hood.

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Ethnic Regions

• Homelands
• Islands
• An ethnic substrate
• Neighborhoods vs. Ghettos
• Voluntary and involuntary
• ethnoburbs
• Movies as examples.
• Recent Ethnic Migrants

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Ethnic Diffusion

• Migration
• Chain migration
• The America letter
• The leader or leaders
• The Immigrants Ladder
• From one ethnic island to another until you reach
  the destination.
• Family histories and migrations
• The Revolving door neighborhood
• Haarlem, Harlem, or Spanish Harlem
• Histories as examples
• Return migration
• Simplification and Isolation

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Ethnic Ecology

• Preadaptation
• No such thing as bad weather, only bad
  clothing.
• Germans and Scandinavian Farmers
• Environmental perception
• Similar but different
• A piece of the old country.

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Ethnic Interaction

• Ethnicity and Livelihood
• Old Stereotypes the Irish Cop, the Jewish
  Banker, etc.
• Asian intensive gardening.
• Lets EAT! Ethnic foodways.
• Food as identity
• Lutefisk, Fleschkukle, Pasties, Wild Rice, Tacos,
  and potatos.
• What the heck is a hush puppie? And other
  culinary oddities.
• Ethnicity and Globalization

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Ethnic Landscapes

• The Sauna and Finnish Landscapes
• Settlement patterns
• The German Farm
• The Cossack town in Texas
• Matrilineal space
• An ethnic flag doesnt necessarily wave in the
  breeze.
• Urban Ethnic Landscapes.

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