Racial Mapping: Mapping Future Communities Racial Mapping is a subject that not only requires the use of Biological Anthropology, but also includes the uses of history, math, and other sciences. The beginnings of Racial Mapping began in around 400 BC during the Hellenic Era in Greece and Macedonia. Alexander the Great was a pivotal point in the start of mapping due to his extensive travel and conquering of people far outside the regions of Greece.
The use of this type of cartography later carried on to the Medieval Age as orthographies from all over Europe and the Middle East used certain maps to distinguish the differences in people’s size and color. Before cartographers began creating maps based of race and ethnicity, many of the maps were also charted off religion. These maps were used my empires and dynasties, such as the Holy Roman Empire, to evaluate how far the rule of their empire spread. As humans neared the 20th century certain nation began to map their own country and the racial populations that dominated certain regions.
In the U. S. The ideas of racial mapping had began early as 1900 and has continued up until this day. There has been much introverts entering the 21st century in America and other countries claiming that racial mapping by the government was racist and biased. European nations are most famous for not necessarily using racial mapping, but defining certain regions in which they inhibited in Africa or South America by a person’s race. This trend would continue with the settlers who stayed in those regions as they began to segregate certain areas to a certain ethnicity or race.
This in turn led to racial laws being enacted in most areas. Most famously the U. S. Mapped out certain areas when the nation was established where American-Indians ND African-Americans were mainly established. They established “ghettos” in which the non-white races would stay and then caused a major divide in the cities. This trend carried on today; however, now the government does not control the mapping. The people of America have divided themselves based on race in many places.
One of the two best examples are the major cities of Detroit and Washington D. C. In Detroit there is a clear-cut divide, which segregates the southern part of the city into a small square of white race, while the north and west African-Americans inhabit both regions. This is not only an occurrence in America, but in several other countries as well. In my native country of Germany the racial divides are very harsh and distinct. Over the last five to ten years the capital city of Berlin alone has taken in around 200,000 immigrants.
Most of the immigrants are from the Middle East and most specifically the country of Turkey. The Turkish people inhabit 6 of the 12 major suburbs tot Berlin and the government NAS even mapped out certain areas where Turkish areas have different regulations and laws. Numerous other factors have come into affect and can also been seen through racial mapping. Racial Mapping shows the differences in fertility rates, college degrees, money earned and many other socioeconomic characteristics.
Overall, I believe that racial mapping and the demographics of certain areas bring the facts and truths to the surface. When applying racial mapping to biological anthropology you can see certain humans move to different areas and mutations become very distinct between the same species. While we are all Homo sapiens the mutations and differences between us are very sharp and noticeable. As the facts show, people in all areas in the world still segregate themselves based on their race or ethnicity. Race still plays a significant role in the America culture.
Even now that people have the same rights and privileges here, there is still major diversity here and throughout the world. Bibliography: Maintain, M. 2004, Mapping race and gender in the Academy Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 1. O’Hare, WAP. 1992, America’s Minorities- The Demographics of Diversity Bulletin, Deck 1992. 2. Dither SGF. & Corer, HTH. Population 1996, Race, gender, and opportunity: a study of maintaining relationships. Journal of Applied Psychology. 3. [ 1 ]. Race, gender and opportunity: a study of maintaining relationships. 1996
