Chapter 7 Flashcards
Blockbusting
When real estate agents convince white homeowners living near black areas to sell at a low price hoping blacks move in and values decline
Apartheid
Physical separation of different races into different geographic areas
Ethnicity
Identity with a group of people who share cultural traditions from a particular hearth
Multinational state
State to containing two ethnic groups with traditions of self determinism that agreed to peacefully coexist
Nationalism
Loyalty and devotion to a nationality
Nation-State
State whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has turned into a nationality
Nationality
Group of people who share a legal and personal attachment to a certain country
Race
Identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor
Racism
The belief that a race is the primary determinant of human traits and that all racial differences produce a superiority of a particular race
Racist
A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism
Self determination
The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
Sharecropper
One who works fields rented from a landowner and pays his rent by giving the landowner a share of the crops
Centripetal Force
Attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state
Multi-ethnic State
State that contains more than one ethnicity
Ethnic Cleansing
A process in which a more powerful ethnic group removes a less powerful one to create an ethnically homogenous region
