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laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically speperated different races into different geographic areas
apartheid
Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities
Balkanization
a small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one ore more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long standing antagonisms toward each other
Balkanized
a process by which real estate agents cinvince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood
blockbusting
an attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state
centripetal force
process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region
ethnic cleansing
identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits a sa product of common heredity and cultural traditionsq
ethnicity
statet hat contains more than one ethnicity
multi-ethnic state
state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities
multinational state
loyalty and devotion ro a particular nationality
nationalism
identiy with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there
nationality
a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality
nation-state
identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor
race
belief taht race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce and inherent superiority of a particular race
racism
concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
self-determination
a person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rend and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops
sharecropper
a practice, primary during the 18th 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
Triangular slave trade