Chapter 7 Key Issues

Question 1

ethnicity

Answer 1

identity w/ particular group of people who share cultural traditions of homeland

Question 2

race

Answer 2

identity w/ group of people who are perceived to share physiological traits

Question 3

nationality

Answer 3

identity w/ group of people who share legal attachment to particular country

Question 4

racism

Answer 4

race is primary determinant of human traits
capacities/racial
differences produce an inherent superiority of particular race

Question 5

racist

Answer 5

person displays discrimination/feels prejudice against people of particular
races

Question 6

US census classifications

Answer 6

• white
• black/African american
• American Indian/ alaskan native
• asian
  -native hawaiian/ other pacific islander

Question 7

1997 guidelines

Answer 7

permit selection of one or more races

Question 8

Hispanic Americans

Answer 8

• primarily from Mexico and Puerto Rico
• clustered in the Southwest
• California, Texas, Florida, new york

Question 9

Asian Americans

Answer 9

• from China, Philippines, India
• clustered in West
• California

Question 10

African Americans

Answer 10

• from three areas of West Africa
• clustered in southeast
• Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, South Carolina, mississippi

Question 11

branco

Answer 11

white

Question 12

pardo

Answer 12

brown

Question 13

preto

Answer 13

black

Question 14

amarelo

Answer 14

yellow

Question 15

clusters in south of brazil

Answer 15

brancos, São Paulo, legacy from Europe

Question 16

clusters in north of brazil

Answer 16

indigenous, Amazon rainforest area, interior

Question 17

clusters in northeast of brazil

Answer 17

northern coast, legacy of migration from Africa

Question 18

clusters in west-central brazil

Answer 18

mixed, site of Brasilia, the capital

Question 19

ethnic enclave

Answer 19

high concentration of ethnic group distinct from those in surrounding area

Question 20

ethnoburbs

Answer 20

suburban area w/ cluster of particular ethnic group

Question 21

urban ethnic enclaves

Answer 21

clustering evident at neighborhood scale

Question 22

slavery

Answer 22

one person owns another person as property and can force to work for owner’s benefit

Question 23

triangular slave trade

Answer 23

Europe to Africa to the Americas

Question 24

sharecropper

Answer 24

works fields on rented land; pays rent by turning over share of crop to landowner

Question 25

African American migration

Answer 25

after both world wars African Americans migrated north and west to factories in the North

Question 26

white flight

Answer 26

emigration of whites from an area in anticipation of blacks moving in

Question 27

blockbusting

Answer 27

real estate agents convince white homeowners to sell homes at low prices
because blacks would cause values to decline

Question 28

redlining

Answer 28

financial institutions refused to lend money within an area drawn on a map

Question 29

separate but equal

Answer 29

upheld by Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896

Question 30

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Answer 30

segregation was unconstitutional

Question 31

black lives matter

Answer 31

campaign against violence and racism toward blacks

Question 32

apartheid

Answer 32

legal separation of races into different areas

Question 33

division based on ethnicity and religion in south asia

Answer 33

• india, hindu
• Pakistan, muslim

Question 34

dividing the kurds

Answer 34

• ethnicity divided among several countries
• Turkey, western Iran, northern Iraq, Syria