TERMS:

Gender - a culture's assumptions about the social differences between men and women

Identity - how we make sense of ourselves; how people see themselves at different scales

Identifying against - constructing an identity by first defining the "other" and then defining ourselves as "not the other"

Race - social and political constructions; categorization of humans based on skin color and other physical characteristics

Racism - differences in socioeconomic classes started the concept of superiority of race

Residential Segregation - degree to which two or more groups live separately from one another, in different parts of the urban environment

Invasion and Succession - new immigrants to a city often move to areas occupied by older immigrant groups

Sense of Place - infusing a place with meaning and feeling; fluid

Ethnicity - identity within a group bound by common ancestry and culture

Space - Defined by Doreen Massey and Pat Jess as "social relations stretched out"

Place - particular articulations of those social relations as they come together, over time, in that particular

Gendered - In terms of place, whether the place is designed for or claimed by men or women

Queer Theory - Theory defined by geographers Glen Elder, Lawrence Knopp, and Heidi Nast that highlights the contextual nature of opposition to the heteronormative and focuses on the political engagement of "queers" with the heteronormative.

Dowry Deaths - In the context of arranged marriages in India, disputes over the price to be paid by the family of the bride to the father of the groom (the dowry) have, in some extreme cases, led to the death of the bride

Barriorzation - Defined by geographer James Curtis as the dramatic increase in Hispanic population in a given neighborhood; referring to barrio, the Spanish word for neighborhood.

Heteronormative - viewpoint that white, heterosexual male is normal

Dowry - money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage

Model Minority - paints Asians as good, hardworking people who, despite their suffering through discrimination, harassment, and exclusion, have found ways to prosper through peaceful means

Power Relationships -

Women in Subsaharan Africa -

Power Relations in L.A. -

Vulnerable Populations -