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A dominant minority, also called elite dominance is a minority group that has overwhelming political, economic, or cultural dominance in a country, despite representing a small fraction of the overall population (a demographic minority). Dominant minorities are also known as alien elites if they are recent immigrants.

The term is most commonly used to refer to an ethnic group which is defined along racial, national, religious, cultural or tribal lines and that holds a disproportionate amount of power. A notable example is South Africa during the apartheid regime, where White South Africans, or Afrikaners more specifically, wielded predominant control of the country, despite never composing more than 22 per cent of the population. African American-descended nationals in Liberia, Sunni Arabs in Ba'athist Iraq, the Alawite minority in Syria (since 1970 under the rule of the Alawite Assad family), and the Tutsi in Rwanda since the 1990s have also been cited as current or recent examples.

In Brazil, despite the majority of its population be racial Black African or Pardo, those groups nevertheless live impoverished, have a high illiteracy rate, more likely to be murdered<ref>"How Black Brazilians Are Looking to a Slavery-Era Form of Resistance to Fight Racial Injustice Today". and are most likely to live in favelas (a Brazilian Portuguese slang for a slum). In contrast, the white population in the country has easier access to better education, job opportunities, a higher wages, etc.<ref>"Racial Discrimination and Miscegenation: The Experience in Brazil". Non-whites are major victims of human rights abuses, including widespread police violence. On average, black and brown (mulatto or mixed race) Brazilians earn half of the income of the white population. Most notably, the middle class and the elite are almost entirely white, so that Brazil's well-known melting pot only exists among the working class and the poor. Non-white Brazilians were rarely found in the country's top universities, until affirmative action began in 2001. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help); Text "urlhttps://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/racial-discrimination-and-miscegenation-experience-brazil" ignored (help)

See also

• Colonialism, particularly exploitation colonialism and plantation colonies
• Elitism
• Middleman minority
• Minoritarianism
• Minority influence
• Model minority
• Neocolonialism
• Pseudo-secularism
• Tyranny of the majority
• World on Fire, a book that introduces the concept of "market-dominant minority"

Footnotes

References

• 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.

• Ethnic groups
• Ethnicity in politics
• Minorities
• Social groups
• Social inequality
• Sociological terminology
• Majority–minority relations