Chapter 7: Ethnicity Flashcards
Race
Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor.
-Physical characteristics and skin color
Ethnicity
The identity with a group of people who share cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth
-Heritage and culture
Blockbusting
A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood, which would drop the prices even lower
-The real estate agents then sold the houses at a higher price to black families leaving the ghettos
White flight
Whites fled their neighborhoods when blacks started moving in nearby
-Cause: blacks moving in
Effect: decrease in white population
Separate but equal
Plessy v Ferguson (1896): States segregation of white and blacks in railway cars is constitutional because it provided separate but equal treatment of blacks and whites
Apartheid
The physical separation of different races into different geographic areas
EX: South Africa- white descendants from Holland enacted a legal system intended to segregate its people
Nationalism
Promotes a sense of national consciousness that exalts (to hold in high regard) one nation
EX: National flag or anthem
Centripetal force
-Push you closer to another
-Unify people and enhance support for a state
EX: Shared hate pushes the country together, anthem, sports, equal rights
Centrifugal force
-Push you away from each other
-Pulls/pushes a country apart and un-unifies
EX: economic instability, racism and segregation,
Ethnic cleansing
A process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region
EX: Balkans-> rivalries among ethnicities led to ethnic cleansing of the Bosnia Muslims
Genocide
The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence
EX: holocaust
Balkinization
The process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities
EX: The balkans
Redlining
A process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property within the boundaries
To withhold home-loan funds or insurance from neighborhoods considered poor economic risks
Ethnic enclaves
A neighborhood, district, or suburb which retains some cultural distinction from a larger, surrounding area.
EX: Chinatown
Jim crow laws
-Southern states enacted a set of laws to segregate blacks from whites
EX: blacks had to sit in the back of the bus and whites in the front
Sharecropping
Freed as slaves, most African Americans remained in the rural South during the late nineteenth century working as sharecroppers
-Works fields rented from a landowner and pays rent by turning over a share of the crops to him or her
Triangular trade
America trades rum to britain
Britain sends clothing and trinkets to Africa
Africa sends slaves to the Carribean
Carribean sends molasses to America and Britian
Concentration
The spread of objects over space
Concentration: clustered vs dispersed
Clustered: things are close together
Dispersed: things are far apart
Racism
The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial difference produce and inherent superiority of a particular race
What is the difference btwn African American and Black
AA- a group within an extensive cultural tradition
Black- denotes nothing more than dark skin
What are the three most numerous ethnicities in the US in 2012
- Asian American
- African American
- Hispanic
Why is it challenging for many to choose their race/ethnicity on the US census form
- Mixed races may not choose to identify with one race or identity
- Some Americans trace their heritage to place s in Europe like Ireland and Italy which are not included in race and ethnicity questions
An example of ethnic clustering in a state scale
- African American make up 85% of Detroit compared to 7% in Michigan
- Chicago is more than 1/3 African American compared to 1/12 in the rest of Illinois