Chapter 7 Ethnicity Vocab

Question 0

Identity with a group of people decended from a biological ancestor

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Race

Question 1

Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions

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Ethnicity

Question 2

Believe that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race

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Racism

Question 3

A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism

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Racist

Question 4

A practice, primarily during the 18th-century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa

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Triangular slave trade

Question 5

A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops

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Sharecropper

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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

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Blockbusting

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Laws, no longer in effect, in south Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas

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Apartheid

Question 8

Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there

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Nationality

Question 9

Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality

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Nationalism

Question 10

An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state

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Centripetal force

Question 11

A force that divides people and countries

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Centrifugal force

Question 12

A process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region

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Ethnic cleansing

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Descriptive of a small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long long-standing antagonisms towards each other

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Balkanized

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A process by which a State breaks down through conflicts among it’s ethnicities

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Balkanization

Question 15

The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence

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Genocide