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18 Cards in this Set
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apartheid
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laws in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas
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Balkanization
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process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicites
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Balkanized
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descriptive of 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
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blockbusting
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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
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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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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 that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions
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multiethnic state
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state that contains more than one ethnicity
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multinational state
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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
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nationalism
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loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality
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nationality
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identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular lace as a result of being born there
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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 descended from a common ancestor
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racism
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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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concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
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sharcropper
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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
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triangular slave trad
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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
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