Bayne Ap Hug Chapter 7

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apartheid

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the physical separation of different races into different geographic areas

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balkanization

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the process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities

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balkanized

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used to describe a small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with conflicts, long-standing antagonisms toward each other

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blockbusting

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real estate agents convinced white homeowners living near a black area to sell their houses at low prices

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centripetal force

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

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ethnic cleansing

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a process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region

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ethnicity

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

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multi-ethnic state

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a state that contains more than one ethnicity

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multinational state

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a state containing two ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities

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nationalism

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loyalty and devotion to a nationality

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nationality

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identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country

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nation-state

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a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality

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race

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identity with a group of people who share a biological anceestor

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racism

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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

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racist

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a person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism

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self-determination

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the concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves

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sharecropper

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works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops

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triangular slave trade

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an efficient triangular trading pattern used to trade slaves at the height of the eighteenth-century slave demand