AP Human Geography Chapter 7 Vocab

Ethnicity

22483748	Apartheid	Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.
22483749	Balkanization	Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.
22483750	Balkanized	A small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms towards each other.
22483751	Blockbusting	A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood.
22483752	Centripetal Force	An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state.
22483753	Ethnic Cleansing	Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.
22483754	Ethnicity	Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions.
22483755	Multi-Ethnic State	States that contain more than one ethnicity.
22483756	Multinational State	State that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.
22483757	Nationalism	Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality
22483758	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.
22483759	Nation-State	A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.
22483760	Race	Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor.
22483761	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.
22483762	Racist	A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism.
22483763	Self-Determination	Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.
22483764	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.
22483765	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.