vocab #7

Question 1

Apartheid

Answer 1

Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.

Question 2

Balkanization

Answer 2

A process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among ethnicities

Question 3

Balkanized

Answer 3

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 4

Blockbusting

Answer 4

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 5

Centripetal force

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Ethnic cleansing

Answer 6

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 7

Ethnic enclave

Answer 7

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

Question 8

`Ethnicity

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Ethnoburb

Answer 9

A suburban area with clusters of a particular ethnic population

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

Nationalism

Answer 11

Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality

Question 12

Nationality

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Race

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Racism

Answer 14

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 15

Racist

Answer 15

A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism

Question 16

Sharecropper

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Triangular slave trade

Answer 17

A practice, primarily during the eighteenth 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.