NB APHG Ch. 7
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MrsTsWorld on November 27, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 ethnicity | Identity with a group of people that share distinct traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions. |
| Balkanization | Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities |
| nation-state | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity |
| homogenous | all of the same or similar kind or nature |
| Apartheid | Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas. |
| self-determination | Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |
| ethnic cleansing | Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region |
| nationality | Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place |
| white flight | The process by which whites move away from areas as ethnic minorities begin to move in. |
| Brown v. Board of Education | court found that segregation was a violation of the Equal Protection clause "separate but equal" has no place |
| nationalism | a devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation |
| race | a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | sumpreme court ruled that segregation public places facilities were legal as long as the facilites were equal |
| centripetal force | An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state |
| unicultural | living primarily among people who are similar in cultural traits |
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