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Ch.5-Identity:Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality

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97661342gendersocial differences between men and women, rather than the anatomical, biological differences between the sexes; differences of "feminine" and "masuline"
97661343identitydefined by geographer Gillian Rose as "how we make sense of ourselves;" how people see themselves at difference scales
97661344identifying againstconstructing an identity by first defining the "other" and then defining ourselves as "not the other"
97661345racea categorization of humans based on skin color and other physical characteristics; both social and political differences
97661346racismfrequently 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
97661347residential segregationdefined 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
97661348invasion and successionprocess by which new immigrants to a city move to and dominate or take over areas or neighborhoods occupied by older immigrants
97661349sense of placestate 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
97661350ethnicityaffiliation or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture
97661351spacedefined by Doreen Massey and Pat Jess as "social relations stretched out"
97661352placethe fourth theme of geography as defined by Geography Education National Implementation Project; uniqueness of a location
97661353genderedin terms of place, whether the place is designed for or claimed by men or women
97661354queer theorytheory 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
97661355dowery deathsin 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
97661356barrioizationdefined by geographer James Curtis as the dramatic increase in Hispanic population in a given neighborhood; referring to BARRIO, the spanish word for neighborhood
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