AP Human Geography Chapter 7 Vocabulary

Apartheid

Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.

Black Lives Matter (BLM)

Movement that campaigns against violence and perceived racism toward Black people and educates others about the challenges that Black Americans continue to face in the United States.

Blockbusting

A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that Black people will soon move into the neighborhood.

Census

A complete enumeration of a population.

Ethnic cleansing

A purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas.

Ethnicity Identity

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

Ethnophobia

Fear of people of a particular ethnicity.

Genocide

The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence.

Nationalism

Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality.

Nationality

Identity with a group of people who share legal attachment to a particular country.

Race

Identity with a group of people who are perceived to share a physiological trait, such as skin color.

Racism

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.

Racist

A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism.

Redlining

A process by which financial institutions draw red-colored lines on a map and refuse to lend money for people to purchase or improve property within the lines.

Sharecropper

A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays the loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops.

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.

Xenophobia

Fear of people who are from other countries.

Annexation

Legally adding land area to a city in the United States.

Centripetal Force

A cultural value that tends to unify people.

Centrifugal Force

A cultural value that tends to pull people apart.