Ch.7 Flashcards
Define ethnicity
Identity with a group of people with the same cultural traditions of a particular homeland/hearth
Define race
Identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor
Define racism
The belief that one race is superior to another
Name the three most numerous ethnicities in the U.S.
Asian American, African American, Hispanic American
What is the problem with the way the U.S. Census Bureau defines “Asian”?
Asian=Race Asian American=ethnicity
same group of people which includes Americans from many countries in Asia
What is the difference between African American and black?
Afr. Amer. is an ethnicity, Black is race
How does the U.S. Bureau consider Hispanic/Latino?
They divided it between Hispanic and Hispanic American
List examples of Afr.A and Hispanic Americans being more urbanized
90% of both ethnicities live in metropolitan areas compared to 75% of all Americans
Where are Hispanics clustered?
South West in New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Claifornia
Where are African Americans clustered?
Southeast in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, South Carolina, and Mississippi
Where are Asian Americans clustered?
West=40%, in Hawaii, 1/2 in California- 12% of the population
Forced Migration for Africans
Africans were forced out of their homes in Africa to become slaves in America- Jamestown, 1619
Interregional Migration for African Americans
1910+1920 A.A. moved to the North and West before and after WW1. 1940s+1950s: after WW2 migration to factories for more jobs
Intraregional Migration
A.A. went to the big cities and clustered in neighborhoods where small numbers of A.A. arrived in the nineteenth century. Known as ghettos
Define “White Flight”
Whites leaving their neighborhoods predicting that blacks would soon move in
Define “Blockbusting”
Real estate agents persuading whites who lived in or near a black area to sell their houses for low prices, saying that blacks would soon move in soon
Define “Separate but equal”
All public services were segregated although the different races were “still treated equally” (not)
Define apartheid
The physical separation of different races into geographic areas
Explain the key components of the apartheid system
A newborn baby was classified as black, white, colored or Asian, based race, people could work, live, and attend school in certain areas
1652 in South Africa
The apartheid system was created by the descendants of whites who arrived in South Africa from the Netherlands
1795 in South Africa
The British captured an controlled the Dutch colony and controlled South Africas gov.
1948 in South Africa
The Afrikaner dominated Nationalists Party won elections- the Afrikaners gained power
1991 in South Africa
The white-dominated gov. repealed the apartheid laws
1994 in South Africa
Nelson Mandela became the first black president, South Africans were allowed to vote for the first time