Chapter 7 - Ethnicities

Nationality

• Identity with a group of people who share legal attachment to a particular country.

• Identify with a group of people based on language, religion, race, and skin color.

• Identity with a group of people based on social economic status, citizenship, and the human development index.

• Identity with a group of people based on country of origin including status of immigration and emigration.

• Identify with a group of people based on many of the common factors that define the economic indicators of corresponding indigenous countries of origin.

An examination of the distribution of ethnicities in the United States reveals

• ethnicities are not often clustered in urban areas.

• different ethnicities cluster in each U.S. region.

• ethnic neighborhoods contain a heterogeneous mix of ethnicities, even in cities that were once known for their patterns of segregation.

• segregation and exclusion are a thing of the past for nearly all U.S. ethnic groups.

• ethnic groups tend to cluster in urban areas and in different U.S. regions.

A group of people who share common characteristics (language, physical appearance, customs, traditions)

• ethnic group

• religious group

• Jews

• Muslims

The racist laws that divided South Africans were known as

• secessionist

• apartheus

• apomatox

• apartheid

Asian Americans are clustered in what area of the United States?

• Southwest

• West

• Plains States

• Northeast

• Southeast

Latino/Hispanic americans are clustered in what area of the United States?

• Southwest

• West

• Plains States

• Northeast

• Southeast

How would you describe ethnic distribution in urban areas?

• disperesed

• clustered

• diverse

• contiguous

• inverted

The "great migration" refers to African Americans in the United States moving where?

• rural to urban within the state

• change to sharecropping

• relocation to norther cities

• movement out of inner-cities

• relocation to coastal cities

The "separate but equal" doctrine in the United States was legally established by

• individual states

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• the Missouri Compromise

• fourteenth amendment to the Constitution

Brown v. Board of Education court decision ruled that

• "white flight" was morally wrong and should be curtailed.

• separate facilities for blacks and whites were acceptable so long as they were of the same quality.

• separate schools for blacks and whites were unconstitutional.

• discriminatory lending practices and restrictive covenants were unconstitutional.