Ap Flashcards

11813063813	Apartheid	Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.	0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