A. Ethnic Geography

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A. Ethnic Geography

• Study of spatial distributions interactions of
  ethnic groups- practice unique adaptive
  strategies - normally occupy defined areas
• 2. ethnic groups populations bound by a common
  place of origin culture, religion, language

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• - Is there such a thing as being black?
• - White? What is whiteness?
• - Latino?
• Do the ideas of ethnicity and race create a
  divide between us and them?

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One man is white admits to having served 18
months in prison for possession of cocaine with
intent to sell. The other is black hasn't any
criminal record.Which man is more likely to get
called back?

• In a carefully crafted experiment in which
  college students posing as job applicants visited
  350 employers, the white ex-con was called back
  17 of the time and the crime-free black
  applicant 14.

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B. Problems encountered when defining ethnic

1. ethnic derives from Greek word ethnos meaning
   people or nation
2. Ethnic a minority group in a host culture
3. strong feeling of group identity

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Problems (Pt. 2)

• membership is involuntary
• born into the group
• individuals may choose to discard their ethnicity
• politics

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Problems (Pt. 3)

• Main problem is different groups base their
  identities on different traits
• Jewsprimarily means religion
• The Amishboth folk culture religion
• African-Americansskin color
• Swiss-Americansnational origin
• German-Americansancestral language
• Cuban-Americansanti-Castro, and anti-communist

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C. Role of ethnic groups

• Keepers of cultural traditions
• provides group identity
• friendships, marriage, religion
• provides recreational outlets, business
  opportunities, political power
• Can give rise to suspicion, friction, distrust.
• even violence

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D. How ethnic groups change

• Acculturation an ethnic group adopts the host
  societys ways
• Assimilation a complete blending with the host
  culture
• involves loss of distinctive ethnic traits
• Ex Americans are descendants of Germans,
  Scots, Irish, French, Swedes, Welsh, Native
  Americans
• Intermarriage most effective assimilatory device

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How ethnic groups change (Pt. 2)

• few ethnic groups have total melting-pot
  assimilation
• -- instead Amalgamation Theory
• last 25 years resurgence of ethnic identity

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• Ethnic Islands
• Westby, Wisconsin

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A. How do ethnic islands begin?

• charter group the dominant ethnic group that
  sets the cultural norms and standards of an area
• ethnic islands clustering of one particular
  ethnic group in a geographic area

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Ethnic NeighborhoodSao Paulo, Brazil
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Indigenous Ethnic Islands in Latin America
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B. Migration Ethnicity

• Chain migration (communication with residents
  from the place of emigration)
• the decision to migrate spreads by both
  hierarchical contagious diffusion
• actual migration relocation diffusion
• chain migration continues
• Chain migration causes the movement of people to
  become channelized
• Ex different parts of the Southwest draw upon
  different source regions in Mexico

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Ex. Of Channelized Migration
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• Cluster Migration ethnic groups immigrating
  from one place forming a homogenous community
  in the host culture
• Exs - Mormons in Utah
• - Dutch in Pennsylvania
• - French in Quebec

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Ethnic BusinessEast Los Angeles
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Ethnic LandscapeNew Zealand

• It is a non-Maori house type with Maori design

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C. Ethnic Islands Cultural Conflict

• Current ethnic conflicts
• Armenia (Christian-Muslim
• the former Yugoslavia (Serbian Christians-Bosnian
  Muslims)
• Sudan (Darfur)
• Nigeria (Muslim north-mixed religion south)
• Ireland (Protestant pro-British vs. Catholic
  Irish)
• Kashmir (India vs. Pakistan)

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Religions in the Former Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia mostly Catholic in north, Orthodox
Christian in south, w/ Muslims mixed
throughout Ethnic cleansing occurred in 1992
in Kosovo ethnic Albanians (Muslim) were
severely oppressed by Serbian nationalists
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Armenian exclave (Christian) in Azerbaijan
(Nagorno-Karabakh) Azerbaijani exclave (Muslim)
in Armenia (Nakhichevan)
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North African Transition Zone - predominately
Muslim north (with Sharia laws) while the south
is mostly Christian/traditional African religions
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• Nigeria

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Religious separation in N. Ireland India
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Afghanistan