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AP HUG CH 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| race | identify within a group of people who share a biological ancestor traits that are shared genetically |
| Ethnicity | identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth |
| Racism | race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce a level of superiority |
| racist | subscriber to racism |
| is Hispanic a race? | no its an ethnicity |
| 2 largest Hispanic groups in the U.S trace their ancestry to what 2 places | Mexico and Puerto Rico |
| in which region of the U.S do we see the following ethnic groups clustered: African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and Native Americans | South East, West, South West, and South West and plains states |
| are African Americans and Hispanics more or less likely to live in urban areas than other ethnicities | more likely |
| emancipation proclamation | document that freed the slaves during the Civil war that were in Confederate areas |
| 13th amendment | abolished slavery |
| 14th amendment | granted citizenship for African Americans |
| "equal protection clause" | A clause in the 14th amendment that stated "no state can deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws” This helps brown win his case and repeal the separate but equal doctrine |
| whereas African Americans migrated to the U.S due to _____ migration; Hispanics and Asians migrated to the U.S due to _______ migration | forced, voluntary |
| push pull factors of African Americans migration to northern cities | Push: Jim crow laws, racism, segregation, sharecropping, less need for sharecroppers pull: better jobs, no Jim crow laws, more jobs available |
| from 1910-1950 did African American urban population increase or decrease | increase |
| "White flight" (identify examples) | White people living in an area are told that Black people will move in, so they move out ex: emigration of whites from central Los Angeles as blacks were arriving |
| "blockbusting" (legal or illegal) | real estate agents scaring white homeowners to sell their houses at lower prices in the anticipation of black people moving into the neighborhood and decreasing the value of their home (legal) |
| Plessy vs. Ferugson importance | establishes the "separate but equal" doctrine |
| Brown vs. Board of education importance | repeals the "separate but equal doctrine" using the "equal protection clause" from the 14th amendment |
| apartheid | physical separation of races in South Africa (literally means separateness) |
| when were apartheid laws repealed | 1991 |
| Nelson Mandela | he was the head of the African national congress and was released from jail in 1991 then he becomes president in 1994 |
| causes of ethnic conflict | nationalism |
| partition of India...why? migration patterns? basis for creation of Pakistan? | because the British leave and then split it to stop ethnic fighting , so everyone who ends up in the other territory leaves and goes to the other territory where there is a higher concentration of their ethnicity. basis Pakistan = no fight |
| in what 4 countries are the majority of Kurds found? | Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria |
| Kurdistan | nation state where there are only Kurds but it doesn't exist, so its meant to describe generally where the Kurds live |
| line of control in Kashmir | In Kashmir there is a line that separates India and Pakistan |
| define nationality | identity of a group of people who share legal attachment to a particular country |
| key differences between ethnicity and nationality | nationality is about what country a group of people is from and ethnicity is what customs they practice or what culture they participate in |
| self-determination | ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |
| which state of Great Britain has the greatest amount of autonomy? | Scotland |
| Nationalism | nationalism refers to the degree of loyalty one has for a nationality |
| nation state | a country run by a ethnicity that contains 1 ethnicity |
| ethnic cleansing | A process by which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful ethnic group in order to create a homogenous area |
| Genocide | mass killing of a group of people in order to eliminate the entire group |
| what caused the break-up of Yugoslavia? | the balkanization or the ethnicties attacking each other again after Tito died |
| explain the conflict in Kosovo | Serbia claims Kosovo and invades it and starts to ethnically cleanse the Albanians |
| balkanization | process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities |
| Berlin conference of 1885 | the conference that started the scramble for Africa |
| explain the issues faced by the Rohingya people of Myanmar | Rohingya migrate to Myanmar from Bangladesh then an economic crisis happens and the Rohingya are blamed and they are stripped of their citizenship, land, right to attend school and jobs, then Rohingya revolt, then they start to be ethnically cleansed |
| root causes of the conflict in Sudan | The black Christian minority rebels in Darfur, but the government sponsored Janjaweed goes and kills them |
| explain the conflict in Darfur | The black Christian minority rebeled, so the Janjaweed start raiding them and the Janjaweed are supported by the government |
| explain the conflict in Rwanda | when belgium had power the minority Tutsi had power, but then after belgium left the Hutus take power and make Tutsi leave and this starts a civil war which is nearly ended by a peace agreement in 1993, but the president dies soHutusvTutsi thenTutsivHutus |
| explain the ethnic change of Detroit | as African Americans move north during the first half of the 21st century there are more African Americans in Detroit |
| complete the following analogy: "Jim Crow" law is to the U.S as ______ is to South Africa | Apartheid |
| primary religion in Pakistan? primary religion of India? | India= Hindu Pakistan= Muslim |
| ethnic enclave | neighborhoods that have clustered distributions of ethnic population |
| Ethnoburb | suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic population |
| sharecropper | Someone who pays rent using the crops that they grow on a landowners land; led to debt and inequality |
| xenophobia | the fear or distrust of outsiders |