ApHug - Chapter 7 Vocab

Apartheid

laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas

Black lives matter

a movement that campaigns against violence and perceived racism towards black people and educates others about the challenges that African Americans continue to face in the US

Blockbusting

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

Ethnic cleansing

a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic/religious group to remove another certain ethnic/religious group from certain geographic areas by violence and terror inspiring means

Ethnic enclave

a place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is distant from those in the surrounding area

Ethnicity

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

Ethnoburb

a suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic population

Ethnophobia

fear of people of a particular ethnicity

Genocide

the mass killing of a group of peoplel in an attempt to eliminate the group from existence

Nationalism

loyalty and devotion to a particular nationally

Nationality

identity with a group of people who share legal citizenship/attachment to a particular country

Race

identity with a group of people who are perceived to share a physiological trait

Racism

the belief that race is 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 turing over to the landowner a share of the crops

Triangular slave trade

a practice, primary durijg the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to the Caribbean Islands, molasses from the Caribbean Islands to Europe, and traded goods from Europe to Africa

Xenophobia

fear of people who are from other countries

Gender

a cultures assumptions about the differences between men and women - their characters, the roles they play in society, and what they represent

Identity

how people make sense of themselves and how they see themselves at different scales

Sense of place

infuse places with meaning and feeling, with memories and emotions

Residential segregation

degree in which two or more groups live separately from one another in an urban setting

Barriozation

the dramatic increase in Hispanic population in a given neighborhood; barrio is Spanish means neighborhood

Gendered

whether the place is designed for or claimed by men or women

Gender gap

differences in social, economic, and political power and opportunity between men and women

Gender Inequality Index (GII)

a measure of the extent of each country's gender inequality