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| 97661342 | gender | social differences between men and women, rather than the anatomical, biological differences between the sexes; differences of "feminine" and "masuline" | |
| 97661343 | identity | defined by geographer Gillian Rose as "how we make sense of ourselves;" how people see themselves at difference scales | |
| 97661344 | identifying against | constructing an identity by first defining the "other" and then defining ourselves as "not the other" | |
| 97661345 | race | a categorization of humans based on skin color and other physical characteristics; both social and political differences | |
| 97661346 | racism | frequently referred to as a system or attitude toward visible differences in individuals, racism is an ideology of difference that ascribes (predominantly negative) signifigance and meaning to culturally, socially, and politically constructed ideas based on phenotypical features | |
| 97661347 | residential segregation | defined by geographers Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton as the degree to which two or more groups live separately from one another, in different parts of an urban environment | |
| 97661348 | invasion and succession | process by which new immigrants to a city move to and dominate or take over areas or neighborhoods occupied by older immigrants | |
| 97661349 | sense of place | state of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place or by labeling a place with a certain character | |
| 97661350 | ethnicity | affiliation or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture | |
| 97661351 | space | defined by Doreen Massey and Pat Jess as "social relations stretched out" | |
| 97661352 | place | the fourth theme of geography as defined by Geography Education National Implementation Project; uniqueness of a location | |
| 97661353 | gendered | in terms of place, whether the place is designed for or claimed by men or women | |
| 97661354 | queer theory | theory defined by geographers Glen Elder, Lawrence Knopp, and Heidi Nast that highlights the contextual nature of opposition to the heteronormative and focuses on the political engagement of "queers" with the herteronormative | |
| 97661355 | dowery deaths | in the context of arranged marriages in India, disputes over the price to by paid by the family of the bride to the father of the groom (the dowery) have, in some extreme cases, led to the death of the bride | |
| 97661356 | barrioization | defined by geographer James Curtis as the dramatic increase in Hispanic population in a given neighborhood; referring to BARRIO, the spanish word for neighborhood |
