11813063813 | Apartheid | Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas. | 0 | |
11813063814 | Balkanization | Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities | 1 | |
11813063815 | 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. | 2 | |
11813063816 | 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 | 3 | |
11813063817 | centripetal force | An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state | 4 | |
11813063818 | ethnic cleansing | Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region | 5 | |
11813063819 | ethnic enclave | A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is distinct from those in the surrounding area | 6 | |
11813063820 | Ethnicity | Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions. | 7 | |
11813063821 | Ethnoburb | A suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic population | 8 | |
11813063822 | Genocide | the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. | 9 | |
11813063823 | Nationalism | Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality | 10 | |
11813063824 | nationality | Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there. | 11 | |
11813063825 | race | A group of human beings distinguished by physical traits, blood types, genetic code patterns or genetically inherited characteristics. | 12 | |
11813063826 | Racism | Belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. | 13 | |
11813063827 | racist | A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism. | 14 | |
11813063828 | 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. | 15 | |
11813063829 | 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. | 16 |
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