APHG chptr 7 w/ex

Racist

A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism. EX: Salt. pepper. NON: Salt. pepper. A person who believes in racism.

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. EX: Salt. pepper. NON: Salt. pepper. A person who works feilds.

Ethnic enclave

A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is distinct from those in the surrounding area. EX: Salt. pepper. NON: Salt. pepper. A place with high concentration.

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. EX: Salt. pepper. NON: Salt. pepper. A practice.

Block busting

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. Where the real estate agents convince white property to get out. EX: Salt. pepper. NON: Salt. pepper.

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. EX: Salt. pepper. NON: Salt. pepper. A policy designigned by one ethnic group.

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 EX: Salt. pepper. NON: Salt. pepper. A small geographic area.

Ethnoburb

A suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic population EX: Salt. pepper. NON: Salt. pepper. A suburban area.

Centripetal force

An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state EX: Salt. pepper. NON: Salt. pepper. Inhancements from the support of the state.

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. EX: Salt. pepper. NON: Salt. pepper. Belief that race is rule.

Ethnicity

Identify with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth. EX: Salt. pepper. NON: Salt. pepper. Identity with a group.

Race

Identity with a group of people who are perceived to share a physiological trait, such as skin color. EX: Salt. pepper. NON: Salt. pepper. Identity with a group with a physiological trait.

Apartheid

Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas. EX: Salt. pepper. NON: Salt. pepper. OW: Race discriminating laws.

Nationalism

Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality EX: Salt. pepper. NON: Salt. pepper. Loyalty to a particular nationality.

Balkanization

Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities The process of a state braking down because of ethnic conflicts. EX: Salt. pepper. NON: Salt. pepper.

Genocide

The mass killing of a group of people in an atttempt to eliminate the entire group from excistance EX: Salt. pepper. NON: Salt. pepper. A mass killing of a group.

Nationality

identity with a group of people who share legal attachment to a particular country EX: Salt. pepper. NON: Salt. pepper. Itentity with a group.