Ethnicity

Ethnicity

A group with whom people share a cultural background.

Ethnicity

Race, Ethnicity, Nationality and Jellybeans

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Race in the US

What are the top 5 Races in the US?

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Poll

What is the largest race in the US?

• Black

• White

• Hispanic

• Native American

Poll

What is the second largest r in the US?

• Black

• White

• Hispanic

• Native American

African American Migration in the U.S.

Map of African Americans in US

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Poll

What is the 3rd lorgest race in the US?

• Black

• White

• HIspanic

• Native American

1. White (75%)

2. African American (12.2%)
3. American Indian or Alaska Native
(>1%)
4. Asian
5. Native Hawaiian (0.1%)

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What cities in the US have the largest African
American population?

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1. New York City
2. Chicago
3. Detroit
4. Philadelphia
5. Houston

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City of Detroit

City of Houston

US Segregation Laws

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• Jim Crow Laws
• In Plessy v. Ferguson, the US

Supreme Court ruled the
Louisiana’s law was
constitutional because it
provided separate but equal
treatment of blacks & whites.

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• In Brown v. Board of

Education , the US Supreme
court found that separate
schools for blacks & whites
was unconstutional

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White Flight
• Migration of whites from racially mixed

urban areas to more racially
homogenous suburban.

• KEY TERMS:
• Balkanized – A small geographic area that

could not successfully be organized into
one or more stable states because it
was inhabited by many ethnicities with
long-standing antagonisms toward each
other.

• Balkanization – Process by which a state

b_____ down through c______ among its
ethnicities/nationalities

Multiple Choice

In what continent is the Balkan Peninsula?

• Africa

• Asia

• Europe

• North America

• South America

Yugoslavia – Balkan Peninsula
• Communist rule restored stability (1945).

• Joseph Tito died in 1980.

• This created a power vacuum. (With no

heir apparent, people begin to return to
their centuries of ethnic and religious
arguments.)

Yugoslavia
• The 3 Major groups involved:

• Serbs – Orthodox Christians
• Croats – Roman Catholics
• Bosnians – Muslims
• Result - Genocide

Ethnic groups in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-95

Sudan --Result
• Sudan was divided into two countries:
• Sudan and S_____ S______

APARTHEID
• The physical separation of different races

into different geographic areas in
___________.

• All newborns were classified into 1 of 4

races:
1. Black
2. White
3. Colored (mixed)
4. Asian

S____ A____

Black “Homelands” in South Africa

• During Apartheid, the govt. of S. Africa

designated 10 homelands to become
black states. No other country in the
world recognized the action.

• Apartheid was abolished in 1991 by the

white-dominated (minority) govt. The
African National Congress nominated
_elson Mandela to become the first
freely-elected black president of S. Africa.

Black “Homelands” in South Africa

N____ M______

Apartheid

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4.1 How is space
politically organized?

Objective and Essential Learning

4.1 For world political maps:

a.

Define the different types of political entities.

▫Independent states are the primary building blocks of the world political map.

▫Types of political entities include nations, nation-states, stateless nations,
multinational states, multistate nations, and autonomous and semi autonomous
regions, such as American Indian reservations.

b.

Identify a contemporary example of political entities.

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Types of Political Entities

A n______ is a group of people with a common identity through shared
c_______ traits such as l_______, r_______, e_______, and heritage.

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Example: The Maasai in
East Africa live in
southern Kenya and
northern Tanzania. They
are a semi-nomadic
ethnic group with a
traditional culture and
language.

Cultural Entities

Types of Political Entities

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A state (country) has…

▪Defined t________ with borders

▪Permanent p_______

▪G___________

▪S_________: The right of a
government to control and defend its
territory and determine what
happens within its borders.

▪Recognition from other states.

Political Entities

Types of Political Entities

A nation-state is when the b______ of the nation match the borders of the state -

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Example:

▪No “true” examples

▪Japan

▫98% Japanese, 70% Shinto & Buddhist

Types of Political Entities

S__________ nations are nations of people without a state to occupy.

Palestinians in Israel

The Basque

in Spain

The Kurds in SW Asia

Types of Political Entities

A multi-state nation consists of a nation of people that live in more than one s_____.

Example: After the fall of the Soviet
Union, ethnic Russians living in former
Soviet territories such as Estonia, Latvia
and Ukraine.

Ethnic Groups: Ukrainian 77.8%, Russian 17.3%

Ethnic Groups:
Estonian 68.7%,
Russian 24.8%

Types of Political Entities

A multinational state is a country with various ethnicities and cultures within its
b______. Examples: The United States, Russia, the former Yugoslavia, Iraq

Afghanistan

▪Ethnic Groups: Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek,
other (includes smaller numbers of Baloch,
Turkmen, Nuristani, Pamiri, Arab, Gujar, Brahui,
Qizilbash, Aimaq, Pashai, and Kyrghyz (2015)

Nigeria

▪Ethnic Groups: More than 250

▪English (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo),
Fulani, over 500 additional indigenous
languages

Types of Political Entities

An autonomous or semi autonomous regionis a location within a state that is given
authority to govern independently from the national government.

Native American Indian Reservations

and Tribal Lands

Hong Kong

Hong Kong, Tibet and others

Objective and Essential Learning

4.1 For world political maps:

a.

Define the different types of political entities.

▫Independent states are the primary building blocks of the world political map.

▫Types of political entities include nations, nation-states, stateless nations,
multinational states, multistate nations, and autonomous and semi autonomous
regions, such as American Indian reservations.

b.

Identify a contemporary example of political entities.

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