Dominant minority
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A dominant minority, also known as alien elites and minority majority if they are recent immigrants, is a group that has overwhelming political, economic or cultural dominance in a country or region despite representing a small fraction of the overall population (a demographic minority). The term is most commonly used to refer to an ethnic group which is defined along racial, national, religious or cultural lines and that holds a disproportionate amount of power.
Examples:
- Muhajirs (Urdu-speakers) in Pakistan[1][2]
- Ahom Tribe in erstwhile Ahom Kingdom now modern-day Assam, India. [3]
- Americo-Liberians in Liberia [4][5][6]
- Mulattoes in Haiti[7]
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.researchgate.net/publication/255857716_Ethnic_Federalism_in_Pakistan_Federal_Design_Construction_of_Ethno-Linguistic_Identity_and_Group_Conflict
- ↑ http://infochangeindia.org/agenda/migration-a-displacement/the-muhajirs-in-the-promised-land.html
- ↑ Yasmin Saikia. Fragmented Memories.
- ↑ President William V. S. Tubman, 1944 - 1971.
- ↑ U.S. Department of State. U.S. Relations With Liberia.
- ↑ Nicole Itano. For Liberians, old ties to US linger.
- ↑ Glenn R. Smucker. Haiti's Upper Class.
- Barzilai, Gad. Communities and Law: Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003). ISBN 978-0-472-03079-8
- Gibson, Richard. African Liberation Movements: Contemporary Struggles against White Minority Rule (Institute of Race Relations: Oxford University Press, London, 1972). ISBN 0-19-218402-4
- Russell, Margo and Martin. Afrikaners of the Kalahari: White Minority in a Black State ( Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1979). ISBN 0-521-21897-7
- Johnson, Howard and Watson, Karl (eds.). The white minority in the Caribbean (Wiener Publishing, Princeton, NJ, 1998). ISBN 976-8123-10-9, ISBN 1-55876-161-6
- Chua, Amy. World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (Doubleday, New York, 2003). ISBN 0-385-50302-4
- Haviland, William. Cultural Anthropology. (Vermont: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1993). p. 250-252. ISBN 0-15-508550-6.
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