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Hyper Segregatation
Definition
This term describes East St. Louis being 95% Black
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Checkerboard 
Definition
This describes the racial geography of blacks in the southern cities after 1900
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New Orleans 
Definition
This  city experienced dramatic growth and became the largest southern port associated with the "Kong Cotton"
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Residential Succesion
Definition
African Americans expanded their northern settlement geography by this process
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Brownsville
Definition
This Chicago cultural landscape was a place of Black pride and success after the Great Migration
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Black Ghetto 
Definition
Identified by Rose as a new Black american settlement pattern of the 20th century, it is associated with the Great Migration and white avoidance.
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Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, & Louisiana
Definition
This region emerged as a part of Black cultural hearth in the US after 1790
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Dred Scott Case
Definition
This established that Blacks were not US citizens
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Ft. Lauderdale 
Definition
This is a general location of Broward County's poorest blacks
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1965 US Defense Interstate  Highway Act
Definition
In Austin, this resulted in the "the White man's road through the Black man's Bedroom," or the geographic split of the city into the White and Black sections.
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Urban Revitalization
Definition
This utilized the concept of "derelict landscape" to explain the need to "improve" East Austin's Black quarter.
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Jam Hill
Definition
This center of Jamaican cultural activities helps bind Broward County's heterolocal settlement of Jamaicans together.
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Black Brain Drain
Definition
This has occurred due to out-migration from Miami-Dade County during the current period of the African Diaspora.
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Disconnected Youth
Definition
These are out-of-school and unemployed people between the ages of 16 and 22
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New York City 
Definition
Of Miami and NYC, the one with the largest Black population in 2000.
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Sectionalism
Definition
This refers to an allegiance to region, rather than nation, and contributed to Civil War.
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
Definition
This found social, political and geographic segregation to be legal; i.e. "separate but equal doctrine."
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1820 Missouri Compromise
Definition
This agreement created one free(Maine) and one slave state(Missouri) and established the  36"30' line (northern limit to slavery)
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Heterolocalism
Definition
This concept refers to a contemporary settlement structure of a scattered ethnic population in suburbia that maintains its ethnicity through particular activities in particular places.
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Tipping Point
Definition
This refers to the proportion of Blacks that must locate in a neighborhood before inducing the White Flight (residential succession)
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Blockbuster
Definition
According to "Chicago" Video, this terms refers to the first Black moving into an all-White neighborhood.
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Title VI and VII
Definition
These created Affirmative action in the 1964 Civil Rights Act
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Jim Crow Laws
Definition
Following Plessy Vs. Ferguson, these broad-based state laws mandated the social and geographic separation of Blacks and Whites.
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Kitchenette 
Definition
Referred to as an overcrowded Black housing unit in Chicago after WWII
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Home Mortgage interest Tax Deduction
Definition
This is a hidden urban policy that contributed to US White suburban home ownership after 1940
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1965 US Defense Interstate Highway Act
Definition
This hidden policy contributed to racial isolation between central cities and suburbs by providing easy access to inner city professional employment and suburban living.
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Cultural Landscape
Definition
The location of NYC West Indian activities; "west indian parlors, restaurants, record stores, groceries,..." these together constitute this concept.
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1954 Brown Vs. Board of Education
Definition
This struck down "Separate but Equal"
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Sahan
Definition
An African concept used to find Lewiston, Maine as a new settlement location
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VOLAGS
Definition
This receive, place, and assist refugee groups
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Greensville 
Definition
Community highlighted in the Fatal Flood
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Second Ghetto
Definition
This is a concept assigned to Chicago's high rise, segregated public housing
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Sectoral Growth
Definition
This describes the spatial pattern of Northern Blacks suburbanization after 1960
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Jamaica
Definition
The largest source nation of West Indians to the US
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1965 INA(Hart-Cellar)
Definition
This increased the flow of Black Migrants from Caribbean nations to to NYC
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Freedman's Bureau 
Definition
This agency, which benefitted African Americans for a brief period after the Civil War, was one of the positive institutional outcomes after emancipation
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FHA
Definition
This institution played an explicitly racist role in post WWII America by restricting suburban access to African Americans 
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Redlining
Definition
Strategy of banks that discouraged loans in certain areas, such as in Cleveland suburbs of Hough and Glendale
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Racial Steering
Definition
Guiding buyers to racially acceptable neighborhoods, this real estate practice is now illegal
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Social Institution
Definition
These are the means by a culture to support its goals and perpetuate itself.
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Railroad
Definition
The network that connected the American Southwest to the American industrial economy and created an additional demand for Mexican immigrant labor.
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Prejudice
Definition
Typically occurs without direct contact, this is an inflexible pre-judgment
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Workplaces
Definition
The place in Allentown where Latinos felt least fairly treated
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Political Fragmentation
Definition
A geographic expression of one of Zelinsky's cultural motifs, it represents "individualism"
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Heterolocalism
Definition
This process describes a new suburban immigrant settlement pattern of dispersion without loss of ethnicity
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Golden Exiles
Definition
This concept is used to describe the first wave of Cuban refugees that fled Castro's new Cuba for Florida.
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Repatriation 
Definition
This term describes the removal of Mexicans from the US during the 1930s. "Operation Wetback" was a type of program during the 1950s
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Race
Definition
This is a concept, which often relies on perceived biological distinctions, actually is a social construct that has ben used to restrict access of minority cultures to housing, employment, and other necessities
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Multicultural Geography
Definition
The study of both racial and ethnic geography
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1917 Jones Act
Definition
This made Puerto Ricans US citizens and freed them to migrate to the US mainland.
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Transnationalism
Definition
This concept explains an immigrant identity that is somewhere "in-between" its new nation and homeland
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Ehtnicity
Definition
A group constructed identity based on amplified cultural attributes and an attachment to homeland
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Racial Geography
Definition
Geographic patterns that reflect the power of the host society to limit the mobility of and restrict access to resources based on race.
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Operation Bootstrap
Definition
This policy resulted from US and Puerto Rican cooperation and was designed to reduce on agriculturally-related employment and increase factory employment in Puerto Rico
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Segmented Assimilation
Definition
This concept accepts straight-line(spatial assimilation) but argues that there are multiple paths related to assimilation
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Nativism 
Definition
Suggests that being native born provides entitlements to resources before any access provided to immigrants
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Brooklyn
Definition
This colonia, created by the activities of the American Manufacturing Company, became an important Puerto Rican  place in NYC
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Spanish Language Signs
Definition
This was one identifier(visual cue) of Allentown's Latino cultural landscape
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Emerging Gateway
Definition
Orlando is a type of gateway, having experienced rapid growth in its immigrant population over the past 20 years
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Packingtown
Definition
This immigrant slums, featured in the movie "Chicago", was located in the "Zone of Transition" near its stockyards and rail yards
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Texas and California
Definition
These two states had Hispanic/Mexican populations and were part of the Entradas. However they developed differently prior to statehood.
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Barrio
Definition
This literally means neighborhood but became a social construction to create a negative image of place at the time of the Great Depression.
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Continuous Gateway
Definition
New York and Chicago are these.
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Borderlands
Definition
The early Hispanic region contained thousands of Spanish Speaking people, who although of a different culture became instant American citizens after the Mexican Cession and Gadsen Purchase
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Inner Suburbs
Definition
This is where Bolivians settled in Washington D.C.
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Haymarket
Definition
Place where Chicago labor riots erupted
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Topophilia 
Definition
Reflects the locational shift of Mexican labor reported in "Hispanics in America" video
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Little Havana 
Definition
Miami, Florida neighborhood revitalized by immigrant Cuban investments 
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Georgia
Definition
US Southern state that was among the highest recipients of illegal Latino immigrants
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Bracero Program
Definition
The guest-worker program, which brought thousands of Mexicans to the US during and after WWII
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Marxism
Definition
Created institutions in Chicago for the working class to distract them from the economic extremes of capitalism. It also explained inner-city slums as capitalist efforts to use geographic space as a tool
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Contradictory Pressures
Definition
These represent both positive and strained relationships between West Indian and Blacks in NYC
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Triple Layering
Definition
In both NYC and Miami, Jamaicans prefer to live among other Jamaicans within West Indian neighborhoods. These neighborhoods tend to be located within large black areas of both cities. This concept describes that geographic settlement structure
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Western Suburbs
Definition
Location of the wealthiest Blacks in Broward County
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Cricket Stadium 
Definition
Public Spending on this was perceived as assisting  West Indian immigrants and led African Americans resentment toward them
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Distancing 
Definition
This involves wanting to be perceived as culturally different from African Americans
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Bantu Somalis
Definition
The name of the historically marginalized minority living ing Somalia
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NASAP
Definition
This established food cooperatives for Lewiston's Somalis and provided family food and surplus to sell at market
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Islam
Definition
This is the majority faith among Somalis in Lewiston 
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Mosque
Definition
Lewiston Somalis pooled their resources to purchase this
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Chesapeake Bay
Definition
The pre 19th century primary location of black racial geography in the US
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Cultural Hearth 
Definition
States from Texas to Carolina that were 33% Black by 1910
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Philadelphia & New York City
Definition
Two Northern cities that had Black neighborhoods before 1910 and were characterized by Dubois as poor and overcrowded
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Detroit
Definition
After New York and Chicago, one of the two cities that had the largest black populations by 2000
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Ghana & Nigeria
Definition
The two African nations that took the most advantage of the US Diversity Visa
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Jamaica & Guyana
Definition
Two Caribbean Nations that took the most advantage of the diversity visa
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Gateway Cities
Definition
These are the most important settlement locations for recent Black immigrants
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Spatial Spillover
Definition
A Northern Black suburban ring settlement pattern of the 20th century
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Spatial Assimilation
Definition
This concept has been applied to many US cities and stresses reuse of older urban areas to reduce the negatives associated with suburbanization
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Urban Revitalization
Definition
This used the concepts derelict landscape and eminent domain to explain the East Austin's decline and need for change.
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Physical Network
Definition
A path connecting two or more points, this describes the canal and rail systems that connected NYC with Chicago
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H-1 Visa
Definition
This type of visa is for non-premanent immigrants who have particular job skills. Their annual limits have been periodically raised by Congress. Their holders are eligible for citizenship during their approved work status
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Globalization
Definition
A hotly debated topic that describes the processes that lead to a more interconnected and interdependent world. It also contributed to immigration and migration.
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Straight line Assimilation
Definition
This concept came from the Chicago School model and suggested settlement in rings(concentric zones) away from the CBD are due in part to social fluidity that allows movement
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Salvadorians
Definition
This group has provided Washington DC largest share of foreign born residents
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Cuba
Definition
This nation provided US with its first Hispanic/Latino group with "nation of first asylum", meaning refugees
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Urban
Definition
Best describes general location and nature of contemporary Mexican-AMerican pop.
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Businesses
Definition
These created important Puerto Rican social institutions and became the backbone of their community
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1916 Jones Act
Definition
Made Filipinos American Nationals and thus allowed their migration to the US
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1923 US vs. Bhagat Singh Thind
Definition
This stated that Asian Indians were not White and could not be naturalized
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2nd Alien Land Law
Definition
This closed the loop hole that had allowed American-born Japanese to purchase agricultural land for foreign born parents
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Ethnoburb
Definition
San Gabriel Valley,Involves the location of different Chinese socioeconomic classes directly in the suburbs, near residential and business clusters, indicating that straight line assimilation does not always apply
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Hawaii
Definition
This place provided young Filipino men early employment opportunities in mills and on plantations prior to their migration to US mainland
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Religious institutions
Definition
Contributed to maintenance of Japanese-American identity
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Commodification 
Definition
A response to the mid-1990s economic crisis by Little Tokyo
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Hide skin Color
Definition
Explanation for Asian Indian invisibility in US
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Luce-Cellar Act
Definition
Provided right of citizenship to Asian Indians in the US after WWII
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Phoenix & Austin
Definition
Two cities that have had an increase in Asian Indians since 1990
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New York & New Jersey
Definition
This gateway contained the largest percentage of Asian Indians in US
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Capitalism & the Chinese
Definition
Enemies of the 1870s California Labor movement
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