Vocab 7

Question 1

Ethnoburb

Answer 1

A suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic population

Question 2

Racist

Answer 2

A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism

Question 3

Nationality

Answer 3

Identity with a group of people who share legal attachment to a particular country

Question 4

Centripetal force

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Blockbusting

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Balkanized

Answer 6

A small geographic area that cannot successfully be organized into stable countries because it is inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other

Question 7

Race

Answer 7

Identity with a group of people who are perceived to share a physiological trait, such as skin color

Question 8

Apartheid

Answer 8

Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different Geo graphic areas

Question 9

Balkanization

Answer 9

A process by which a State breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities

Question 10

Genocide

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Ethnic enclave

Answer 11

A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is distinct from those in the surrounding area

Question 12

Racism

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Ethnic cleansing

Answer 13

A purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas

Question 14

Sharecropper

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Nationalism

Answer 15

Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality

Question 16

Ethnicity

Answer 16

Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth

Question 17

Triangular slave trade

Answer 17

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