Navigating Ethnicity - Segregation, Placemaking, and Difference

This important book provides a comprehensive synthesis of the geography of race and ethnicity. David Kaplan explores the complicated terrain of ethnicity through an expansive global perspective. He encapsulates the central debates, explains key concepts, and provides compelling examples of the crucial role ethnicity plays in everyday geographies.

List of contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Something about Ethnicity
Chapter 2: Diversity in Urban History
Chapter 3: Contextualizing Ethnicity
Chapter 4: Fashioning Spatial Concentration
Chapter 5: Measuring and Modeling Spatial Segregation
Chapter 6: Ethnic Culture Regions and Placemaking
Chapter 7: Ethnic Spaces Created from Exploitation and Conflict
Chapter 8: Positive Consequences of Concentration
Chapter 9: Negative Consequences of Concentration
Chapter 10: Multiculturalism and the Spatial Configuration of Ethnic Groups in the City
Chapter 11: Distances and Diasporas
Chapter 12: Transnationalism and Hybridity
Chapter 13: Envisioning the Future
References
Index

About the author

David H. Kaplan is professor of geography at Kent State University. He has published over a dozen books, including Urban Geography, Nested Identities, and Landscapes of the Ethnic Economy.

Summary

This important book provides a comprehensive synthesis of the geography of race and ethnicity. David Kaplan explores the complicated terrain of ethnicity through an expansive global perspective. He encapsulates the central debates, explains key concepts, and provides compelling examples of the crucial role ethnicity plays in everyday geographies.

Product details

• Authors: David H Kaplan, David H. Kaplan
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781538101896
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0189-6
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Human Geography in the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Applications; Human Geography in the Twenty-; Human Geography in the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Applications
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Politics & government, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General