Unit 7: Ethnicities

President Barack Obama is a good example of the...

• complexity of ethnic identity in the United States

• confusion over ethnicity and race in Kenya

• biological basis for classifying humans

• principle of the distribution of persons of color

Race is...

• characterized by Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic/Latino

• self-identification with a group sharing a biological ancestor

• determinable from physical characteristics

• evenly distributed around the World

• defined by statute in most states

Racisim is belief in...

• the biological classification of people

• superiority of some groups because of racial identity

• inferiority of other groups because of racial identity

• All of the above

What are some differences between ethnicity and race?

• Ethnicity is primarily determined by genetics

• Ethnicity is important to geographers because the U.S. Bureau of the Census does not keep track of race

• Race is the preferred basis for distinguishing among people

• Ethnicity is with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth, while the definition of race involves genetically transmitted traits

• Ethnicity is an official category and race is not

An equivalent, alternative term to Hispanic is...

• Chicano/Chicana

• Latino/Latina

• Mexican

• Spanish

• Spanish American

African Americans are clustered in what area of the United States?

• Southeast

• Southwest

• Plains States

• Pacific Northwest

• Northeast

Asian Americans are clustered in what area of the United States?

• Southwest

• West

• Plains States

• Northeast

• Southeast

Latinos and Hispanics are clustered in what areas of the United States?

• Northeast, cities

• West, Southwest

• cities

• Southwest, Southeast

• Pacific Northwest, Plains States

African American and Hispanic ethnicities are...

• racially similar

• not measured by the U.S. Census

• similarly distributed across the United States

• never found near one another

• both spatially concentrated in neighborhoods within large American cities

The largest proportion of Asian Americans are from...

• Vietnam

• Japan

• China

• the Philippines

• Korea