IDENTITY AND PLACEHOW DO PLACES AFFECT IDENTITY AND HOW CAN WE SEE IDENTITIES IN PLACES?

ETHNICITY AND PLACE

Ethnic identity is greatly affected by scale and place

• E.g., India and Pakistan• In South Asia there is conflict between them• In Fairfax County, VA, they identify with each other as

part of a collective South Asian identity

Sometimes ethnicity is defined by conflict between two groups with no other way to describe them

• Hutu vs. Tutsi

ETHNIC ENCLAVES/NEIGHBORHOODS

Ethnos – Greek for people or nation

Ethnic often used to describe a neighborhood or a cuisine

What are some local examples you can think of?

“Welcome to Little Havana”

ETHNIC ENCLAVES

Little Italy

ETHNIC ENCLAVES

Chinatown

ETHNIC ENCLAVES

Polish in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Ethnic Groups in

Los Angeles

Barrioization • When the population of a neighborhood changes over largely to Hispanics

Cultural landscapes change to reflect changing populations

• Sequent occupance?

Think of some local areas of barriozation

Invasion and Succession: New immigrants to a city often move to areas occupied by older immigrant groups.

The Santo Domingo enclave of Washington Heights, New York (Juan Pablo Duarte Boulevard)

The Dominican flag waves from a flag post - the language of the street & signs are all in Spanish.

GENDER

WHAT IS “MASCULINE”? WHAT IS “FEMININE”?

GENDER

• Gender is another identity marker

• Also socially constructed: gender roles

• Not to be confused with sex, which is biological

• Culturally specific: characteristics vary over time and place

• femininity how many children you have

GENDERED SPACES

• Places seen as appropriate for one gender or the other

• Curves gym

• Groups of 4

• Identify gendered spaces by scale

1. House

2. School

3. Shopping mall

4. United States

5. Online?

GENDER, POWER, AND PLACE• Women’s work tends to be undervalued and/or

not counted

• Not included in gross national income (GNI)

• Housework• Work of rural women in LDC’s

• Produce more than half the food• Build homes• Dig wells• Plant and harvest crops• Make clothes

• Refer to last page of packet (World Population Highlights 2010)

DOWRY DEATHS

• India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran

• Disputes over the price paid by the bride’s family to the groom’s father

• Small number but not declining

• >8000 women in India in 2012• How is this related to what you learned about

gender in your summer assignment?

• Hindu saying: "Raising a daughter is like watering your neighbors' garden"

CHILD BRIDES• Who should decide whom you marry?

• Worldwide, how many girls under the age of 18 will be married this year?

a) 14 million

b) 5 million

c) 850,000• Video: Too Young To Wed

• Record your thoughts, impressions and questions as you watch

• Video: Girl Rising – Azmera From Ethiopia

• Record your thoughts, impressions and questions as you watch