Exam 2 Study Guide
Be able to define, explain, and come up with examples related to the following concepts:
Identity
- Positionality
- Race
- Ethnicity
- Nationality
- Language
- Gender
- Structural racism
- Examples of dehumanizing language
- Residential segregation
- Apartheid (grand and petty) and its consequences
- Residential segregation in the US
- How residential segregation in the US has changed over time
- Redlining and the HOLC
- Urban Renewal
- Racial steering
- Segregated schools
Language
- Dialect, language, accent
- Anatolian vs. Kurgan hypothesis
- Natural vs. artificial languages
- Tonal vs. atonal languages
- Hans Kurath and dialect geography
- Isogloss
- Harvard Dialect Survey
- What influences regional dialects
- Languages by number of native speakers
- Major language families by number of native speakers
- Perceptual dialectology
- How it is studied
- Major findings
- Metathesis
- Toponyms
- Toponyms that have changed and reasons for change
- Most common street names in the USA
- Confederate iconography
- Where schools are located
- Demographics of schools named after confederates
- When these schools were built/named
Religion
- Sacred space
- Ritual
- Monotheistic, polytheistic, animistic religions
- Contested space and animistic religions
- Religions by size
- Spatial characteristics, rituals, and sacred space of various religions
- Islam
- Christianity
- Hinduism
- Buddhism
- Qibla
- Necrogeography
- Spatial aspects of burial practices
- Cemeteries
- Cremation
- Columbariums
- Environmental and spatial challenges associated with various burial practices
- Eruvs and conflicts associated with them
- Israel and Palestine
- Relative importance of religion in the conflict
- Zionism and its origins
- Most important date in the conflict
- Allocation of land under the UN Partition Plan
- Role of Leon Uris’s Exodus in shaping American perspectives on Israel
- Palestinian water resources and how they are controlled