Identity;+race,+Ethnicity,+Gender,+and+Sexuality

//Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality//

Summary:
An example of an assigned identity is race while an example of a chosen identity is religion. Discrimination against a group of people is established based on their identity.

Vocabulary:
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A map based on U.S. Census data from 2000 showing the largest ancestry group in each county in the continental United States.

Census Data for New York by race from 2000 Census
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 * = Color ||= Race ||
 * = Red ||= White ||
 * = Green ||= Asian ||
 * = Orange ||= Hispanic ||
 * = Blue ||= Black ||
 * = Gray ||= Other ||

Census Data for Chicago by race from 2000 Census


*Each dot is 25 people. Data from Census 2000. This is an example of a gendered of a product. The color blue is associated with boys and pink with girls; therefore there are the blue snuggies for boys and pink snuggies. On the pack of the snuggie, the boy is playing a video game and the girl is talking on the phone. We all know boys are associated with video games and girls with gossiping. By looking at the product we can assume that the blue snuggie is designed for boys and the pink one for girls. The same applies to Gendered places because they are places designed for men or women.

Case studies/current events:
[|America Reaches Its Demographic Tipping Point] [|India's dowry deaths]

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