| A | B |
|---|
| race | identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor |
| ethnicity | identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth |
| triangular slave trade | an efficient triangular trading pattern used to kidnap and sell slave |
| sharecropper | a person who works the fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops |
| racism | the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial difference produce an inherent superiority of a particular race |
| racist | is a person who subscribes or believes in racism |
| blockbustin | when real estate agends convinced white homeowners living near a black area to sell their houses at low prices, preying on their fears that black families whould soon move into the neighborhood causing the property values to decline |
| apartheid | physical separation of differnt races into different geographic areas |
| Nationality | identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country |
| self-determination | concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |
| nation-state | a state whose territory corresponds to that occurped by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality |
| nationalism | loyalty and devotion to a nationality |
| centripetal force | an attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state |
| multi-ethnic state | a state that contains more than one ethnicity |
| multinational states | contain two ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities |
| Ethnic cleansing | a process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region |
| Balkanized | old term 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 complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other |
| Balkanization | the process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities |
