66 7.6 KEY TERMS DEFINED

Acculturation: Cultural change, generally the reconciliation of two or more culture groups.

Discrimination: Mistreatment due to perceived difference.

Diversity: Having a range of different people.

Enclave: Self-enforced separation for a racial or ethnic group.

Environmental Justice: The concept that environmental benefits and burdens should be equally shared across different socio-economic groups.

Ethnic cleansing: An attempt to complete expunge or remove traces of another population from a place. May or may not relate to genocide.

Ethnicity: group of people sharing a common cultural or national heritage and often sharing a common language or religion.

First effective settlement: Doctrine in which the first group able to assert dominance provides the template for the future society.

Foodway: The cultural, social, and economic practices relating to the production and consumption of food.

Genocidal: having the purpose of exterminating an entire people.

Ghetto: Area of externally forced and legally-defined ethnic or racial separation.

Immigration: Incoming migration to a place.

Jim Crow: A set of laws enforcing racial segregation and disenfranchisement in the southern United States in the poet Civil War era.

Majority: A group making up more than half of a population. Minority: A group making up less than half of a population. Nation: An ethnicity or a people.

Race: The categorization of humans into groups based physical characteristics or ancestry.

Segregation: The spatial and/or social separation of people by race or ethnicity.

Xenophobia: fear of the different.