GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nationstates, Redlining, Blockbusting
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Race: idenity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor: asian, african-american. Racism: the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capaciies and that biological diferences produce an inherent superiority of a paricular race. Racist: person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism; race a > race b. Prejudice: a preformed unsupported judgment or opinion about a person or a group of people based on stereotypes. Ethnic neighborhoods: neighborhoods that are mostly made up of people from one or two ethnic groups: can form on the basis of ainity and chain migraion, also by discriminaion. Redlining: drawling lines on a map to idenify areas where agents don"t provide loan money or services. Blockbusing: real estate agents convinced white homeowners living near a black area to sell their houses at low prices, preying on their fears that black families would soon move into the neighborhood and cause property values to decline.
