Regional Concentrations of Ethnicities

• Where does the clustering of ethnicities occur?

• Where are African-Americans clustered? Hispanics? Asian-Americans? American Indians?

• Compare these two scales: African Americans in Mississippi and in Oregon.

Concentration of Ethnicities in Cities

1. How many Americans live in cities and how many African Americans live in cities?

2. What happens when you increase the scale of the above question to the state level?

3. How do the ethnic concentrations and traditions differ between the descendents of European immigrants and African-Americans/Hispanics?

4. What is a sharecropper?

Differentiating Ethnicity and Race

1. How are race and ethnicity alike and different? Create a chart or Venn Diagram.

2. Discuss the role of biological features in determining race, and how geographers use them.

3. Define racism

4. What is the difference between the terms African-American and Black?

Race in the US

1. How does the US define race?

2. What is the “separate but equal doctrine?”

3. What is “white flight?”

4. What is “blockbusting?”

5. Write a summary of the spatial interaction of races in the US.

Race in South Africa

1. Explain the major components of the policy of Apartheid.

2. What is a Boer?

3. How did South African leaders use homelands to “control” the black population?

4. Outline the dismantling of Apartheid.