white minority rule
Colonizers governing majorities
White minority rule is a political system in which a white population comprising less than half of citizens holds governing power over a nonwhite majority.
The term most commonly describes apartheid-era South Africa and colonial Rhodesia, where legal structures enforced racial hierarchy and excluded Black majorities from political participation: The transition from white minority rule to democracy came in 1994.
- apartheidRacial separation policy
- racial segregationSeparation by ethnic background
- separate but equalRacial segregation's constitutional fiction
- color barCalibration reference graphic
- racial classificationGrouping by ancestry or ethnicity
anti-apartheid movement · disenfranchisement · pass laws · civil rights movement · Pan-Africanism · racial hierarchy · colonialism · Freedom Charter · grassroots activism · paternalism · liberation theology · economic exploitation · social Darwinism · Group Areas Act · police brutality · propaganda · authoritarianism · truth and reconciliation
white minority rulemajority rule
Decisions by greater number
representative democracy · universal suffrage · democratic governance · popular sovereignty · self-determination
white minority ruleracial equality
Equal treatment regardless of ancestry
Black empowerment · racial justice · anti-apartheid · decolonization · racial integration
white minority ruledemocratic transition
Shift from autocracy to elected rule
white, whiter, whitest, whiten, whiteness, whitening, whitish, minority, minor