Ch7 Rubenstein Vocab

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Ethnicity

Identity with a group of people who share the same cultural traditions.

Race

Identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor.

Triangular Slave Trade

An efficient triangular trading pattern.

Sharecropper

Works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops.

Racism

The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherit superiority of a particular race.

Racist

One who subscribes to the beliefs of racism.

Blockbusting

When real estate agents convinced white homeowners living near a black area to sell their homes at low prices.

Apartheid

Physical separation of different races into different geographic areas.

Nationality

Identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country.

Self-determination

The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.

Nation-State

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

Nationalism

Loyalty and devotion to a nationality

Centripetal Force

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

Multi Ethnic state

A state with more than one ethnicity

Multinational State

Contain two ethnic groups with traditions of self determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinctive nationalities.

Ethnic Cleansing

A process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogenous region.

Balkanization

The process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.

Balkanized

A small geographic area that can not be successfully organized into one or more stable states because it is inhabited by many ethnicities with hate of each other.