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APHGTerms-Chap. 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Diaspora | Experiences of people who came from a common ethnic background but live in different regions or ethnic backgrounds. |
| Ethnicity | Refers to a group of people that share a common identity relating to physical characteristics and perceived social and cultural identity. |
| Ethnic Provinces | When entire regions become associated with ethnic or racial aggregations. |
| Ethnic Islands | Small, rural areas settled by a single ethnic group as opposed to ethnic neighborhoods or enclaves, which are urban. |
| Charter Group | The first ethnic group to establish cultural norms in an area. |
| Syncretism | The development of a new cultural trait as a result of the fusion of two distinct but interactive cultures. |
| Ethnic Enclaves | A relatively small area occupied by a distinct culture or ethnicity which largely results from chain migration. |
| Social Distance | The measure of the perceived differences between an immigrant's ethnic group and charter or host society. |
| Ethnic Neighborhoods | Concentrations of people from the same ethnicity in certain pockets of the city. |
| Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide | The effort to rid a country or region of everyone of a particular ethnicity either through forced migration or genocide is ethnic cleansing. Ethnic genocide is a premeditated effort to kill everyone of a particular ethnic group. |
| Apatheid | The physical separation of different races into different geographic nations . |
| Balkanization | The process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities. |
| Balkanized | A word that was used to describe a small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicites with complex and long standing antagonisms toward each other. |
| Blockbusting | The process in which real estate owners convince white homeowners living near a black area to sell their house for a low price and then selling that house to black people escaping crowded ghettos for a high price. |
| Centripetal Force | An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state. |
| Multi- Ethnic State | A state that contains more than one ethnicity. |
| Multinational State | A state that contains two ethnic groups with traditions of self determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing as distinct nationalities. |
| Nationalism | Strong sense of loyalty and devotion to a nationality. |
| Nationality | An identity of a person relating to a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country. |
| Nation-State | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality. |
| Race | An identity of a person relating to a group of people who share a biological ancestor. |
| Racism | The belief that race is primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. |
| Racist | A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism. |
| Self-Determination | The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves. |
| Sharecropper | A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent by giving a share of crops grown from that land to the owner. |
| Triangular Slave Trade | An efficient triangular trading pattern developed in the 18th century by European countries that traded goods to buy slaves in Africa and traded them with America (mainly the Caribbean) for sugar and molasses. |
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