GEO 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Critical Geopolitics, Geopolitics
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Distinctions are often unclear and terms are used interchangeably: on census, ethnicity and race have national origin groups. Race rooted as forming or affiliation of ancestors. Identity as constructed: specific reasons for emerging. How race and ethnicities identities shift over time and space. Migration can have complete effects on race/ethnicities. Rather than diluting ethnic identities, migration may at times foster ethnic bonds: meaning of category has shifted over time. Italian americans in early 20th century migrated from italian peninsula had united around a broad area of being italian . Racial/ethnic identity has been linked to mobility: capacity to move across space based on own terms and conditions. A racialized process of people with european ancestry from racially mixed cities to homogenous suburbs. For many, leaving city also often meant escaping from urban toxic legacies and increasing unequal distributions to toxic hazards. African americans mobility under him crow: a racial caste like system that began as early as 1877.
