AP HUG unit 4 vocab

vocab for you nerds

ethnic enclave

A place with high concentration of an ethnic group that is distinct from those in the surround area

Balkanization

A process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicites

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

Centripetal Force

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

Centrifugal Force

Forces that tend to divide a state

Race

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

Ghettos

During the middle ages, a neighborhood in the city set up by law to be inhabited by only Jews; now used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure

Homogeneous

Composed of parts or elements of the same kind in a population

Ethnoburb

A suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic population

Apartheid

Laws in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas

Racist

A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism

Ancestors

A person typically on more remote than a grandparent from whom one is descended

Blockbusting

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

Multi-ethnic State

A state that contains more than one ethnicity

Indigenous People

One that inhabited a region before people of different ethnicity arrived and become the majority

Homeland

A place of origin for a certain ethnicity

Plessy VS Ferguson

A supreme court decision that justified segregation. “Equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races”

Racism

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

Nationality

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

White Flight

The move of white city dwellers to the suburbs to escape the influx of minorities

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

Nationalism

Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality

ethnic cleansing

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

ethnicity

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

Descendants

A person that is descended from a particular ancestor

Jim Crow Laws

Written to separate blacks and whites in the US

Genocide

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

Voluntary Migration

Permanent movement undertaken by choice

Forced Migration

Permanent movement usually compelled by cultural factors