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AP GEO CH 7
Adams HCHS AP Human Geo. Rubenstein Ch 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Apartheid | Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas. |
| Balkanization | The process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities. |
| Balkanized | Term widely 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 complex and long-standing antagonisms toward each other. |
| Black Lives Matter | Movement that campaigns against violence and perceived racism toward black people and educates others about the challenges that Black people continue to face in the U.S. |
| Blockbusting | 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. |
| Centripetal Force | An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for the state. |
| Ethnic cleansing | The process by which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region. |
| Ethnic enclave | A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is distinct from those in the surrounding area. |
| Ethnicity | Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth. |
| Ethnoburb | A suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic population. |
| Ethnophobia | Fear of people of a particular ethnicity. |
| Genocide | The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence. |
| Nationalism | Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality. |
| Nationality | Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment to a particular place. |
| Race | Identity with a group of people who are perceived to share a physiological trait, such as skin color. |
| Racism | 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 | A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism. |
| Redlining | A process by which financial institutions draw red-colored lines on a map and refuse to lend money for people to purchase or improve property within the lines. |
| Sharecropper | 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. |
| Triangular slave trade | A practice, primarily during the 18th century, in which European ships transported trade goods from Europe to Africa, slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands and molasses from the islands to Europe. |
| Xenophobia | Fear of people who are from other countries. |
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