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11813063813ApartheidLaws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.0
11813063814BalkanizationProcess by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities1
11813063815BalkanizedA 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
11813063816BlockbustingA 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 neighborhood3
11813063817centripetal forceAn attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state4
11813063818ethnic cleansingProcess in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region5
11813063819ethnic enclaveA place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is distinct from those in the surrounding area6
11813063820EthnicityIdentity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions.7
11813063821EthnoburbA suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic population8
11813063822Genocidethe deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.9
11813063823NationalismLoyalty and devotion to a particular nationality10
11813063824nationalityIdentity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there.11
11813063825raceA group of human beings distinguished by physical traits, blood types, genetic code patterns or genetically inherited characteristics.12
11813063826RacismBelief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.13
11813063827racistA person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism.14
11813063828SharecropperA 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
11813063829Triangular Slave TradeA 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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