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
• 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
