Ethnicity
Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth
What is ethnicity?
Identity with a group of people who are perceived to share a physiological trait, such as skin color
What is race?
A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
What is sharecropping?
This court case legalized segregation with "Separate but Equal"
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
Migration of African Americans from south to northern and western cities during first half of the 20th century
What is the Great Migration?
belief that one’s own ethnic group is superior to all others
What is ethnocentrism?
Laws designed to segregate people based on race.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
process of denying a creditworthy applicant a loan for housing in a certain neighborhood even though the applicant would otherwise qualify.
What is redlining?
This court case ruled that schools needed to be desegregated (led to greater calls for total desegregation) and declared that separate was not equal.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
The Triangular Slave Trade is an example of this kind of migration
What is forced migration?
a place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is distinct from those in the surrounding area
What is an ethnic enclave?
Segregation by Law
What is de jure segregation?
emigration of white Americans from an area in anticipation of black Americans immigrating into that area (usually out of urban areas and into suburban areas)
What is White Flight?
The Apartheid took place in this country.
What is South Africa?
the tendency of Southern states to vote Democratic after the Civil War (politicians kept in power that were not sympathetic to civil rights)
What is the Solid South?
purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the population of another ethnic/religious group from certain geographic areas
What is Ethnic Cleansing?
Segregation by unwritten tradition.
What is de facto segregation?
unethical business practice where real estate agents and business developers convinced white homeowners to sell their homes below market value preying on the fear that black families would move in and cause property values to decline
What is Blockbusting?
These are forces that unite.
What are centripetal forces?
The pull factors for the Great Migration
What are greater economic opportunities and greater equality?
the mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence
What is Genocide?
the act of separating someone apart from others
What is Segregation?
This is the active, professed refusal to obey certain government laws, demands, or commands, often as a nonviolent means to influence policy or highlight injustice
What is Civil Disobedience?
These are forces that tear apart.
What are centrifugal forces?
the legal separation of races into different geographic areas with 4 Government-designated races: black, white, colored (mixed white and black), and Asian in South Africa
What is the Apartheid?