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Chapter 7
Term | Definition |
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Apartheid | Laws (no longer in use) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas |
Balkanization | A process by which a state breaks through conflicts among its ethnicities |
Balkanized | 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 |
Blockbusting | A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at a low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood |
Centripetal force | An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state |
Ethnic cleansing | 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 from certain geographic ares |
Ethnic enclave | A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is distinct from those in the surrounding area |
Ethnicity | Identify with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth |
Ethnoburb | A suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic population |
Genocide | The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence |
Nationalism | Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality |
Nationality | Identity with a group of people who share legal attachment to a particular country |
Race | Identity with a group of people who are perceived to share a physiological trait, such as skin color |
Racism | 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 |
Sharecropper | A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops |
Triangular slave trade | 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 |