IDENTITY
AND PLACE
HOW 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
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.
Invasion and Succession:
New immigrants to a city often move to areas occupied by older immigrant
groups.
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
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2.
3.
4.
5.
House
School
Shopping mall
United States
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
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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