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Ethnicity
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Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth
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Race
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Identity with a group of people who share a common ancestor
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Triangular slave trade
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A practice, primarliy 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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Sharecropper
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Someone who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops
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Racism
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The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
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Racist
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A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism
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Blockbusting
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A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their homes at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood
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Apartheid
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The physical separation of different racs into geographic areas
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Nationality
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Identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and perosonal allegiance to a particular country
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Self-determination
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The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
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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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Nationalism
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Loyalty and devotion to a nationality
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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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Multi-ethnic state
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A state that contains more than one ethnicity
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Multinational states
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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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