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Chapter 7- Ethnicity
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Apartheid | Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas. |
| Balkanization | A process by which a state breaks down 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 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 geographic areas. |
| Ethnic enclave | A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is distinct from those in the surrounding area. |
| Ethnicity | Identity 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. |
| Racist | A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism. |
| 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. |