Geography of Race & Ethnicity Defining –Race –Ethnicity –Nationality –Racism.

Geography of Race & Ethnicity

• Defining– Race– Ethnicity– Nationality– Racism

Distribution of African Americans

Distribution of Hispanics in US

Distribution of Asians in US

Distribution of Native Americans

• Racism shaping landscapes– Nazi Germany & WWII Europe– Apartheid South Africa– United States

South Africa: Black Homelands

• Rural Ciseki homeland

• St Lous, 1970s Boston, 1970s, leads to riots

• Los Angeles

• Ethnicity

• Nationalism

• Nationality

• Ethnic cleansing

• Balkanization

• Case Study: Yugoslavia

Ethnicity in the former USSR

Ethnicity in the Caucasus

Ethnicity in Lebanon

The Balkans, 1914

Ethnicity in the Balkans

• Stari Most Bridge, built in 1566 by

the Ottoman Turks was an important

attraction in Mostar. (top) It was blown up

by Serbian forces in 1993. (middle).

It was rebuilt in 2004

Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo