Ethnicity

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Balkanization

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Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among ethnicities

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Apartheid

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Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas

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Balkanized

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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 different ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other

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Blockbusting

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A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their homes at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood

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Centripetal force

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

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Ethnic cleansing

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Process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcefully removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region

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Ethnicity

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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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Multiethnic state

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State that contains more than one ethnicity

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Multinational state

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

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Nationalism

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Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality

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Nationality

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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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Nation-state

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

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Race

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Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor

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Racism

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Belief that race is the primary determinant of human trait and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of s particular race

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Racist

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A person who subscribed to the beliefs of racism

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Self-determination

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Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves

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Sharecropper

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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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Triangular slave trade

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A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to the Caribbean Islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and goods from Europe to Africa