Chapter seven rubenstein
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Terms
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- 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
- 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
- Apartheid laws
- (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas
- Centripetal force
- An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state
- 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
- Race
- Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor
- Nation-state
- A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality
- Nationalism
- Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality. 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
- Ethnic cleansing
- Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region
- Racist
- A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism
- Multi-ethnic state
- State that contains more than one ethnicity
- Self-determination
- Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
- 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
- Ethnicity
- Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions
- 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
- 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
- Balkanization
- Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities