Chapter Seven Flashcards
Ethnicity
Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth. An ethnicity could refer to a group occupying a very small area, such as the Tutsis of Central Africa, or it could refer to a large heterogeneous group, such as Asian Americans.
Race
Identity with a group of people who are perceived to share a physiological trait, such as skin color.
Nationality
Identity with a group of people who share legal attachment to a particular country.
Racism
The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.
Racist
A person who displays discrimination or feels prejudice against people of particular races.
Triangular Slave Trade
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.
Sharecropper
Works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops.
Blockbusting
Real estate agents convinced white homeowners living near a black area to sell their houses at low prices, preying on their fears that black families would soon move into the neighborhood and cause property values to decline. The agents then sold the houses at much higher prices to black families desperate to escape overcrowded areas.
Redlining
A process by which financial institutions draw red-colored lines on a map and refuse to lend money for people to purchase or improve property within the lines.
Black Lives Matter
Movement that campaigns violence and perceived racism toward black people and educates others about the challenges that African Americans continue to face in the US.
Apartheid
The legal separation of races into different geographic areas.
Nationality
Loyalty and devotion to a nationality.
Ethnophobia
Fear of people of a particular ethnicity.
Xenophobia
Fear of people who are from other countries.
Ethnic Cleansing
A purposeful policy designed by one ethnicity or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas.
