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1 White Minority Rule

White minority rule describes a situation where whites, comprising the minority of inhabitants, hold power over (i.e. disenfranchised) a non-white population (the majority).

The term was principally (though not entirely) used in Southern Africa, especially in the Republic of South Africa (before and during the policy of Apartheid) and in Rhodesia (before and during the rule of the Rhodesian FrontThe Rhodesian Front (RF) was a political party in Southern Rhodesia, later known simply as 'Rhodesia', now called Zimbabwe, when the country was under white minority rule. Led by Ian Smith, who made a Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) from the). Without exception, these non-white populations favoured Majority Rule, a term which the whites qualified (or more accurately, devalued) as a Black Majority Rule. In both South Africa and Rhodesia, majority rule was brought through violent upheavals.

2 Sources and further reading

• Gibson, Richard. African Liberation Movements: Contemporary Struggles against White Minority Rule (Institute of Race Relations: Oxford University Press, London, 1972). BooksEnthsiast.com
• Russell, Margo and Martin. Afrikaners of the Kalahari : White Minority in a Black State ( Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1979). BooksEnthsiast.com
• Johnson, Howard and and Watson, Karl (eds.). The white minority in the Caribbean (Wiener Publishing, Princeton, NJ, 1998). BooksEnthsiast.com, 1558761616
• Chua, Amy. World on FireWorld On Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability is a book published in 2002 and written by Amy Chua, as an academic study into ethnic divisions in a society. Ethnic minorities, says Chua, are often highly suc: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (Doubleday, New York, 2003). BooksEnthsiast.com
  • Yale Law professor Chua's work is widely considered to be amongst the best and most controversial contemporary books on the subject. It emphasizes minority market dominance in a world economy marked by increasing globalizationGlobalization (or globalisation in its literal sense is a social change, an increased connectivity among societies and their elements due to transculturation; the explosive evolution of transport and communication technologies to facilitate international. A book review is available on Salon.comcom is an Internet-based media company founded in 1995 by editor-in-chief David Talbot and several other colleagues from the San Francisco Examiner''. Though providing several services, it is best known for its online magazine, with content updated each w.