Ethnic Studies Vocab
This term refers to a person's cultural identity, including shared customs, language, and heritage.
Ethnicity
This term refers to the dispersion of people from their homeland.
Diaspora
What was the name for the swapping of diseases, ideas, food, crops, and populations between the Americas and Eurasia/Africa.
Columbian Exchange
What term describes a person who is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years, typically of European descent.
Indentured Servant
This term refers to a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
Refugee
This term refers to a person’s physical or cultural traits as a category for grouping people.
Race
This term typically refers to a group with less power or representation in society.
Minority
What is the term for what happens when a country's government forces people to go from a place where they have been living to another place
Forced Removal
What term describes a system of human enslavement where one person owns another person and their offspring as property?
Chattel Slavery
This term refers to measures to make amends to right the wrongs of social injustice, war, and human rights violations.
Reparations
This term is defined as the belief system or set of principles that someone follows.
Creed
This term refers to people who come from places colonized by Spain.
Hispanic
What was the name of the indigenous group Columbus first encountered?
Taino
What is the term for the set of state and local laws that enforced racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans in the US from the 1880s to the 1960s?
Jim Crow Laws
What paintings have existed in the Americas since around 790?
Frescoes
This term refers to the act of attributing something to a particular cause.
Ascribing
This term is used to encompass one's language, food, values, holidays, clothes, and social practices.
Culture
What is the term that defines the right of Indigenous tribes in the United States to govern themselves?
Tribal Sovereignty
What is the social movement dedicated to fighting racism and anti-Black violence, especially police brutality?
Black Lives Matter
What did the Aztec call themselves?
Mexica
This term typically refers to traits that cannot be changed.
Immutable Qualities
This term refers to one's ethnicity, race, ancestry, creed, and culture.
Identity
What is the process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society?
Assimilation
What portion of the Triangular Trade refers to the part of the voyage taken by enslaved Africans?
The Middle Passage
What does DACA stand for?
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals