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.
Nation-state
A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.
Balkanization
The process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities, as a threat to peace throughout the world, not just a small area.
Ethnic Enclaves
A relatively small area occupied by a distinct culture or ethnicity, which largely result from chain migration. Eases the adaption process by providing business opportunities, community, and cultural items and traditions from home such as food and clothes
Social Distance
Measure of the perceived differences between an immigrant ethnic group and the charter or host society.
Nationalism
Loyalty and devotion to a nationality.
Sharecropper
Works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops.
Multi-ethnic state
A state that contains more than one ethnicity.
Ethnic Neighborhood
Concentrations of people from the same ethnicity in certain pockets of the city. When ethnic groups are forced to live in a segregated parts of the city, the neighborhood becomes a "ghetto."
Multinational state
Contains two ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.
