Super Important Terms
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.
What is Blockbusting?
This is the most numerous ethnicity in the United States.
What are Latinos/Hispanics?
This court case legally established "separate but equal"
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
This is loyalty and devotion to a nationality
What is nationalism?
These two ethnic groups were in conflict in Rwanda and Burundi
The Hutus and the Tutsis?
The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence.
What is Genocide?
A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism.
What is a racist?
This is what the interregional migration of African Americans looked like during the first half of the 20th century
What is migration from the South to northern cities?
Name the two countries that make up the British Isles
What are Ireland and the United Kingdom?
A process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities
What is Balkanization?
An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state.
What is a centripetal force?
Asian Americans are clustered in this area of the United States
What is the west?
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. (Vocab Term)
What is the Triangular Slave Trade?
Name three ethnicities of the British Isles
What are Scots, Welsh, English or Irish?
These two former Yugoslavian basketball players were the focal point in the 30 for 30 Once Brothers
Who is Drazen Petrovic and Vlade Divac?
Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.
What is Apartheid?
A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is distinct from those in the surrounding area.
What is an ethnic enclave?
Leader of the African National Congress who was jailed for more than 27 years and helped put an end to apartheid.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This is the religion of the Kurds
What is Sunni Muslim?
After what event was Yugoslavia created
What is WWI?
A purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas.
What is ethnic cleansing?
The U.S. census regards Hispanic American as an _____________, but it regards Asian American and African American as races.
What is ethnicity?
What did Intraregional migration look like for African Americans in the second half of the 20th century
What is migration from ghettos of the inner-city to suburban neighborhoods?
This is what centrifugal means
What is to spread out from the center?
This was the main reason for the breakup of Yugoslavia during the 1990s
What is rivalries among ethnicities?