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genocide

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The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to create an ethnically homogenous region.

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segregation

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Separation of public life based on race; Laws established in the US Southern states after slavery and in effect until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s

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Ethnicity

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A social division based on national origin, religion, language, and often race.

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Balkanized

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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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Ghetto

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A section of a city where members of a minority group live due to social, legal or economic pressure

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Balkanization

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Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.

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Multiethnic State

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A state that contains more than one ethnicity.

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White flight

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The departure of whites from places (like urban neighborhoods or schools) increasingly or predominantly populated by ethnic minorities.

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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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Kurds

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The largest ethnic group in the world without a homeland; Divided among several nationalities including Turkish, Syrian, Iraqi, and Iranian nationalities.

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Indian partition of 1947

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British exit lead to ethnic conflict and the creation of Pakistan

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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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Ethnic Enclave

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A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is different than the surrounding area.

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Apartheid

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Separation of races into geographic areas ("homelands"); Forced migration of blacks into "homelands"; Established in South Africa after independence from the British Empire and in effect until the 1990s.

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ethnic cleansing

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A process in which a more powerful ethnic group attempts to remove a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.

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nationality

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Identity as member of a nation/state; Legal status (citizenship); Allegiance (loyalty) to a nation/state

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race

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Physical traits; Identity with a group of people based on a biological ancestor.

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Hispanic/Latino/Latina

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a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race; One of the largest ethnic minorities in the U.S.

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Ethnic cleansing

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Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.

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Ethnoburb

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A suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic group. a suburb with a concentration of a particular ethnic group.

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Nationalism

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A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country or ethnic group.

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Triangular Slave Trade

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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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ethnicity

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Cultural traits; Identity with people who share cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth.

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Racism

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Belief that one race is superior to another.

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Race

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Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor.

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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 black families will soon move into the neighborhood.

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Rwanda

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An East African country of 12 million with its capital at Kigali; Site of a 1994 genocide in which the majority Hutu ethnic group attempted to murder all the minority Tutsi ethnic groups.

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Self determination

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Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.

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Racist

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A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism.

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Sharecropper

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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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Centrifugal force

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A force that divides people and countries.

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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 place as a result of being born there.

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racism

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A belief in superiority or inferiority of people purely because of race.

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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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Genocide

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(n.) the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

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