Race
This term refers to how racial identity shapes one’s access to housing, work, and belonging in urban spaces.
What is racial stratification?
When people are forced to leave their homes due to conflict, natural disasters, or persecution, they are called this.
What is refugees or forced migrants?
Give some examples of inequality that you see in your day-to-day life
Economic Inequality
Healthcare Inequality
Housing & Neighborhoods
Access to Technology
Social & Cultural Inequality
This 2017 Jordan Peele film explores racial and social unease within a seemingly “safe” suburban space.
What is Get Out (2017)?
This is the term for the sense of belonging a person feels within a community or place, which can be challenged when people are displaced or migrate.
What is community identity?
half points for identity.
When migration is not voluntary but forced by environmental, political, or economic pressures, this type of movement occurs.
What is forced migration?
This reading examines refugees in Atlanta, highlighting emotional adaptation as part of resettlement.
What is Sriram (2020)?
This term refers to the unequal distribution of resources, opportunities, and privileges in society.
What is social inequality?
In this Disney film, the Madrigal family lives in a magical house in Colombia. The grandmother, as a young woman, had to flee with her husband to escape danger, and the story explores themes of family, resilience, and finding belonging, much like how refugees adapt to new homes.
What is Encanto?
What term is this? When people move to a new place or culture, they may need to adjust their habits and beliefs.
What is cultural adaptation or acculturative stress?
Aguilar-San Juan (2005) shows that Southeast Asian Americans navigate race in the city by doing this — creating new meanings of “home” and “community.”
What is redefining belonging?
Sriram (2020) highlights that race and emotion intersect in this Southern U.S. city, where Bhutanese refugees rebuild life.
What is Atlanta
Segregation in Dakar is based on access rather than race, showing how urban space can reproduce social hierarchies.
What is access-based inequality?
This film follows students at a historically Black college as they compete in high-stakes musical performances, navigating hierarchy, teamwork, and community expectations. Thus, the main character is illustrating resilience amid social and institutional pressures.
What is Drumline (2002)?
When groups create spaces, traditions, or networks to stay connected and maintain their culture, even in a challenging environment, this is happening.
What is community resilience?
This sociological concept explains how race is socially constructed and reinforced through urban systems and migration policies.
What is racial formation?
Which reading is talked about using this short statement? “Staying Vietnamese,” this reading emphasizes that urban space is a site of this for displaced communities.
Aguilar-San Juan 2005
When wealth, education, and social power are concentrated in certain groups, leaving others marginalized, it creates this dynamic.
What is stratification?
This Pixar movie follows a lonely robot cleaning up an abandoned Earth after climate collapse.
What is WALL·E (2008)?
When people work together to keep their culture or community strong, even in hard situations, this is happening.
What is building community?
Where did the Bhutanese refugees who resettled in Atlanta originally come from?
What is Bhutan?
Name one of the cities mentioned as a part of the Presentation today ?
Dakar, Manila, and Mumbai or New York, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
Sriram highlights that Bhutanese refugees face emotional challenges and stress from resettlement, showing that migration is not only a physical journey but also an _____ journey.
fill in the blank
What is psychological or emotional?
The main character struggles with identity while in exile, communities adapt to survive in challenging environments, and a power takeover highlights structural inequality. This mirrors the challenges faced by displaced people navigating new spaces.
Hint: Disney
What is The Lion King (1994)?
In sociology, this concept refers to the use of objects, gestures, or actions that carry meaning and help individuals communicate, express identity, and understand social interactions
What is symbolism?