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Ch7 Rubenstein Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 between Europe, Africa and the Americas. |
| 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 in South Africa. |
| 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 to 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 homogeneous 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 who hate of each other. |
| Discrimination | Treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit; partiality or prejudice |
| Ghetto | Term derived from areas in cities where only Jews lived, but now used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure. |
| Separate but equal | Laws passed, usually in the America South and called "Jim Crow", pertaining to a racial policy by which blacks may be segregated if granted equal opportunities and facilities, as for education, transportation, or jobs. Now considered unconstitutional. |
| White flight | After separate but equal laws were designated to be unconstitutional, whites left neighborhoods where they believed blacks would now move into. |
| Homelands | As part of apartheid, 10 regions in South Africa where every black was supposed to be a citizen even if they didn't live there. |