Chapter 5 Vocabulary

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Gendered

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In terms of a place, whether the place is designed for or claimed by men or women.

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Identity

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Defined by geographer Gillian Rose as "how we make sense of ourselves;" how people see themselves at different scales.

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Succession

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Process by which new immigrants to a city move to and dominate or take over areas or neighborhoods occupied by older immigrant groups. For example, in the early twentieth century, Puerto Ricans "invaded" the immigrant Jewish neighborhood of East Harlem and successfully took over the neighborhood or "succeeded" the immigrant Jewish population as the dominant immigrant group in the neighborhood.

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Racism

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Frequently referred to as a system or attitude toward visible differences in individuals, it is an ideology of difference that ascribes (predominantly negative) significance and meaning to culturally, socially, and politically constructed ideas based on phenotypical features.

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Residential segregation

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Defined by geographers Douglas Massey and Nancy Dentonas, the degree to which two or more groups live separately from one another, in different parts of an urban environment.

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Sense of place

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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.

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Gender

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a culture's assumptions about the differences between men and women: their 'characters', the roles they play in society, what they represent.

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Identifying Against

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we first define the "other" and then we define ourselves as "not the other"

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Race

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a constructed identity and a perfect example of how identities are built. ; a categorization of humans based on skin color and other physical characteristics.

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Ethnicity

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Affiliation or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture.