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ethnicity

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identity w/ particular group of people who share cultural traditions of homeland

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race

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identity w/ group of people who are perceived to share physiological traits

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nationality

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identity w/ group of people who share legal attachment to particular country

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racism

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race is primary determinant of human traits
capacities/racial
differences produce an inherent superiority of particular race

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racist

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person displays discrimination/feels prejudice against people of particular
races

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US census classifications

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  • white
  • black/African american
  • American Indian/ alaskan native
  • asian
    -native hawaiian/ other pacific islander
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1997 guidelines

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permit selection of one or more races

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Hispanic Americans

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  • primarily from Mexico and Puerto Rico
  • clustered in the Southwest
  • California, Texas, Florida, new york
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Asian Americans

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  • from China, Philippines, India
  • clustered in West
  • California
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African Americans

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  • from three areas of West Africa
  • clustered in southeast
  • Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, South Carolina, mississippi
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branco

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white

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pardo

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brown

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preto

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black

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amarelo

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yellow

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clusters in south of brazil

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brancos, São Paulo, legacy from Europe

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clusters in north of brazil

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indigenous, Amazon rainforest area, interior

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clusters in northeast of brazil

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northern coast, legacy of migration from Africa

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clusters in west-central brazil

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mixed, site of Brasilia, the capital

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ethnic enclave

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high concentration of ethnic group distinct from those in surrounding area

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ethnoburbs

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suburban area w/ cluster of particular ethnic group

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urban ethnic enclaves

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clustering evident at neighborhood scale

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slavery

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one person owns another person as property and can force to work for owner’s benefit

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triangular slave trade

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Europe to Africa to the Americas

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sharecropper

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works fields on rented land; pays rent by turning over share of crop to landowner

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African American migration
after both world wars African Americans migrated north and west to factories in the North
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white flight
emigration of whites from an area in anticipation of blacks moving in
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blockbusting
real estate agents convince white homeowners to sell homes at low prices because blacks would cause values to decline
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redlining
financial institutions refused to lend money within an area drawn on a map
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separate but equal
upheld by Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
segregation was unconstitutional
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black lives matter
campaign against violence and racism toward blacks
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apartheid
legal separation of races into different areas
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division based on ethnicity and religion in south asia
- india, hindu - Pakistan, muslim
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dividing the kurds
- ethnicity divided among several countries - Turkey, western Iran, northern Iraq, Syria
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nationality
citizenship, born in the country and immigrants that acquired citizenship
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ethnicity
groups with distinct ancestry
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quebecois
debate over whether it is a nationality or ethnic group
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2 countries in British isles
UK and ireland
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nationality within UK
english, Welsh, scot, irish
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nationalism
loyalty and devotion to a nationality, centripetal force
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ethnicities in turkey
primarily Turkish (75%) and Kurds (18%)
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ethnicities in iraq
divided by branches of Islam
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ethnicities in syria
minority Alawites hold political power
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ethnicities in lebanon
divided by Christians, Muslims, and Druze each considering themselves ethnically distinct
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ethnicities in pakistan
primarily Punjabi (45%), Pashtuns (15%)
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ethnicities in iran
primarily ethnic Persians (61%), Azerbaijani (16%), Kurds (10%)
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ethnicities in afghanistan
Pashtun (42%); Tajik (27%), fighting among ethnicities
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azerbijan
primarily Azerbaijani (90%), Shiite Muslim, Turkic language
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armenia
98% Armenian, Christian, Indo-European language
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georgia
82% Georgian
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Abkhazia and south ossetia
seceded from Georgia, recognized by Russia as independent countries
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Ethnicities in Central Asia States
Tajikistan (80% Tajik), Turkmenistan (80% Turkmen), Kyrgyzstan (70%), Uzbekistan (70% Uzbek), Kazakhstan (70% Kazakh)
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ethnophobia
fear of people of a particular ethnicity
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xenophobia
fear of people from other countries
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ethnic cleansing
purposeful policy designed by one ethnicity or religious group to remove by violent means that civilian population of another ethnic group
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genocide
genocide—mass killing of a group in an attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence
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Nazis
deported and exterminated around 17 million people including 6 million Jews
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Europe after WWll
mass movement of people within Europe due to boundary changes
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rohingya
ethnic group from Rakhine state, Sunni Muslim
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ethnic cleansing and genocide myammar
stripped of citizenship and rights by Myanmar’s government subject to ethnic cleansing and forced migration
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ethnic cleansing southeast europe
Multiethnic Yugoslavia—major ethnic groups (Croat, Serbian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Slovene) granted relative autonomy
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ethnic cleansing kosovo
autonomous region in Serbia 82% of Kosovo’s population ethnic Albanian Serbs launched ethnic cleansing in 1990s Kosovo declared independence in 2008
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ethnic diversity Bosnia and herzegovina
most ethnically diverse of former Yugoslavia--44% Bosniak, 31% Serb, 17% Croat, each sought to maximize their territory through ethnic cleansing
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srebrenica massacre
1995, largest single ethnic cleansing event in Bosnia
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Bosnia & Herzegovina After Ethnic Cleansing
territory divided after the 1995 Dayton accords, joint Croatian (20% of land) and Bosnian (30% of land) region, Serbian region (50% of land)
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balkanization
process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities
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Ethnicities & Nationalities in Africa
identity primarily based on ethnicity rather than nationality
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Dafur
civil war between Arab dominated government vs. black African ethnicities (western Sudan)
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South Sudan
civil war 1983-2005, ended with establishment of South Sudan
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Abyei
borderland, considered citizens of both Sudan and South Sudan
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South Kordofan and Blue Nile
borderlands
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Eastern Front
borders Eritrea, major issue oil profits
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Ethnic Cleansing & Genocide in Rwanda & Burundi
large-scale ethnic cleansing between the Hutus and Tutsis
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Ethnic Cleansing & Genocide in the Congo
ongoing civil wars, ethnic conflicts ethnic cleansing genocide

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