Chapter 7 Flashcards

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Race

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identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor

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Ethnicity

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identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth

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Triangle slave trade

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  • Europe to Africa with goods to buy slaves
  • Africa to Western Hemisphere with slaves and gold
  • Western Hemisphere to Europe with sugar and molasses
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Sharecropper

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Works fields rented from a landowner and paid the rent by turning over to the landowner a share of crops

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Racism

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The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race

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Racist

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A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism

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Blockbusting

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Real estate agents convinced white homeowners living near a black area to sell their houses at a low prices

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Apartheid

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the physical separation of different races into different geographic areas

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Nationality

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In the US, it identifies citizens of then United States of America, including those born in the country and those who immigrated and became citizens

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Nation-state

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A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality

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Self-determination

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The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves

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Nationalism

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Loyalty and devotion to a nationality

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Centripetal force

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An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state

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Ethnic cleansing

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A process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region

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Balkanized

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Descriptive of 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

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Balkanization

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Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities

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Acculturation

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When one group of people adopt the culture traits of another culture

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Adaptive strategies

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strategies that make people adapt to the prevailing culture

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Assimilation

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The succession of one race into another

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Barrio

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An urban area in a Spanish-speaking country

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Chain migration

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Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there

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Cultural adaption

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New people adapt to the culture of the previously existing people

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Cultural shatterbelt

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Areas where diverse languages are spoken

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Ethnic conflict

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A war between ethnic groups, often as a result of ethnic nationalism

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Ethnic enclave
A neighborhood, district, or suburb which retains some cultural distinction from a larger, surrounding area
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Ethnic group
People of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture
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Ethnic region
A region containing a dominant group of people who share the same cultural backgrounds
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Ethnic homeland
A place of origin for a certain ethnicity
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Ethnic landscape
Various ethnic groups that make up a population
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Ethnic neighborhood
An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background
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Ethnocentrenism
Belief in superiority of one's own ethnic group
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Ghetto
A poor, densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
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Plural society
A society combing ethnic contrasts
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Segregation
And social system that provides seperate facilities for minority groups
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Social distance
The distance between different groups of society and is opposed to locational distance
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Distribution of ethnicities
Dependent on race, religion, and culture
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Sequent occupance
Notion that successful societies leave their cultural imprints on a place each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape
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Ethnic exclaves
A part of a country that is seperated from the rest of the country by ethnicity that is surrounded by different ethnicities
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Dowry death
Disputes over the price to be paid by the family of the bride to the father of the groom (the dowry) have, in some extreme cases, lead to the death of the bride
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Enfranchisement
A statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government
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Gender
The state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones)
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Gender gap
Difference in political views between men and women
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Infanticide
The act of killing an infant
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Longevity gap
The gap between the life expectancy of men and women
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Maternal mortality rate
Number of deaths per thousand of women giving birth
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GDP
The value of the total number of goods and services produced in a country in a given time period
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GNP
Is similar to GDP except that includes income that people earn abroad