AP Human Geography Ethnicity Flashcards

9910621014	ethnicity	Cultural traits; Identity with people who share cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth.	0
9910621015	Apartheid	Separation of races into geographic areas ("homelands"); Forced migration of blacks into "homelands"; Established in South Africa after independence from the British Empire and in effect until the 1990s.	1
9910621016	segregation	Separation of public life based on race; Laws established in the US Southern states after slavery and in effect until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s	2
9910621017	Rwanda	An East African country of 12 million with its capital at Kigali; Site of a 1994 genocide in which the majority Hutu ethnic group attempted to murder all the minority Tutsi ethnic groups.	3
9910621029	Genocide	(n.) the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.	4
9910621030	Multiethnic State	A state that contains more than one ethnicity.	5
9910621031	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.	6
9910621032	Nationalism	A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country or ethnic group.	7
9910621033	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.	8
9910621034	Nation-state	A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.	9
9910621035	Race	Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor.	10
9910621036	Racism	Belief that one race is superior to another.	11
9910621037	Racist	A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism.	12
9910621038	Self determination	Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.	13
9910621039	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.	14
9910621040	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.	15
9910621041	White flight	The departure of whites from places (like urban neighborhoods or schools) increasingly or predominantly populated by ethnic minorities.	16
9910621018	Ghetto	A section of a city where members of a minority group live due to social, legal or economic pressure	17
9910621019	Ethnic Enclave	A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is different than the surrounding area.	18
9910621020	Ethnoburb	A suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic group. a suburb with a concentration of a particular ethnic group.	19
9910621021	nationality	Identity as member of a nation/state; Legal status (citizenship); Allegiance (loyalty) to a nation/state	20
9910621022	race	Physical traits; Identity with a group of people based on a biological ancestor.	21
9910621023	racism	A belief in superiority or inferiority of people purely because of race.	22
9910621024	genocide	The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to create an ethnically homogenous region.	23
9910621025	ethnic cleansing	A process in which a more powerful ethnic group attempts to remove a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.	24
9910621026	Hispanic/Latino/Latina	a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race; One of the largest ethnic minorities in the U.S.	25
9910621027	Kurds	The largest ethnic group in the world without a homeland; Divided among several nationalities including Turkish, Syrian, Iraqi, and Iranian nationalities.	26
9910621028	Indian partition of 1947	British exit lead to ethnic conflict and the creation of Pakistan	27
9910621042	Balkanization	Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.	28
9910621043	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 toward each other.	29
9910621044	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.	30
9910621045	Centripetal force	An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state.	31
9910621046	Centrifugal force	A force that divides people and countries.	32
9910621047	Ethnicity	A social division based on national origin, religion, language, and often race.	33
9910621048	Ethnic cleansing	Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.	34