Chapter 7 Vocab

Question 1

Laws (no longer in effect) in south Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas

Answer 1

Apartheid

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Balkanization

Question 3

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 standing antagonisms toward each other

Answer 3

Balkanized

Question 4

The dramatic increase in Hispanic population in a given neighborhood; referring to barrio, The Spanish word for neighborhood

Answer 4

Barriozation

Question 5

A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the environment

Answer 5

Blockbusting

Question 6

In the context of arranged marriages of India, disputes over the price to be paid (the dowry) by the brides family to the grooms father have, in some cases, led to the bride’s death

Answer 6

Dowry death

Question 7

Process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly remove a less powerful one in order to create an ethnicity homogeneous region

Answer 7

Ethnic cleansing

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Ethnicity

Question 9

Social differences between men and women (rather than anatomical, biological differences)

Answer 9

Gender

Question 10

“How we make sense of ourselves “according to the geographer Gillion Rose; how people see themselves at different scales

Answer 10

Identity

Question 11

Constructing an identity by first defining the “other” and then defining ourselves as “not the other”

Answer 11

Identifying against

Question 12

Process by which new immigrants to a city move to and dominate or take over areas occupied by older immigrant groups

Answer 12

Invasion and succession

Question 13

Stated that contains more than one ethnic city

Answer 13

Multiethnic state

Question 14

State that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distant nationalities

Answer 14

Multinational state

Question 15

Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality

Answer 15

Nationalism

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Nationality

Question 17

A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality

Answer 17

Nationstate

Question 18

Theory that highlights the contextual nature of opposition to the heteronormative and focuses on the political engagement of homonormative with the heteronormative

Answer 18

Queer theory

Question 19

Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor

Answer 19

Race

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Racism

Question 21

A person who subscribes to the believes of racism

Answer 21

Racist

Question 22

The disagree to which two or more groups live separately from one another in different parts of an urban environment

Answer 22

Residential segregation

Question 23

Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves

Answer 23

Self-determination

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Sharecropper

Question 25

And efficient trading pattern where ships left Europe for Africa, and then to the western hemisphere

Answer 25

Triangular slave trade