| Word | Definition |
| Apartheid | laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically seperated different races into different geographic areas |
| Balkanization | process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities |
| 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 eachother |
| Blockbusting | a process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood |
| Centripetal force | an attitude that tends to unify people and inhance support for a state |
| Ethnicity | identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions |
| Ethnic cleansing | process in which more powerful ethnic groups forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region |
| Multi-ethnic state | state that contains more than one ethnicity |
| Multinational state | a state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self determination that agree to co-exist peacefully by recognizing eachother as distinct nationalities |
| Nationalism | loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality |
| Nationality | Identitiy with a group of people that share legal attatchment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there |
| Nation-state | a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality |
| Race | Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor |
| Racism | Belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and compacities and the racial differences produced an inherent superiority of a particular race |
| Racist | A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism |
| Self-determination | concept that ethnicites have the right to govern themselves |
| Sharecropper | a person who works feilds rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the drops |
| Triangular slavetrade | 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 |
