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 -