The dominant minority
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24076672 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth Kirkwood (0000-0001-6994-7751, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | S8 |
| Pages | 129-153 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Biosocial Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9320 • E-ISSN: 1469-7599 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021932000024949 |
| OpenAlex | W2315078087 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 33 |
John Stuart Mill and Sir Charles Wood are the British thinkers to whom I wish to pay special tribute in this paper. I must begin, however, by recalling that in London 30 years ago, I was accused of propounding a ‘natural law of white minorities’ and of being unduly deterministic in my prediction that the then still proposed Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, to be entrusted mainly to a white minority, could not succeed. It availed little to reply that my hypothesis of ‘Imperial inertia’, as I called it, and my forecast for the Federation, were made in the hope that the Federal constitution and its mode of implementation might be modified before it was imposed in 1953 by the government of the United Kingdom. I also urged that the key concepts ‘partnership’ and ‘trusteeship’ should be closely defined—it will be remembered that the Federation was formally dedicated to interracial partnership—and that careful regard should be given to what I termed ‘external partnership’, ‘internal partnership’, ‘external trusteeship’ and ‘internal trusteeship’, and to the important, dynamic relations between these concepts and policies, relationships which were scarcely recognized.
Constitution · General partnership · Government (linguistics) · Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · Tribute · White (mutation) · White paper · African history and culture analysis · Law · Philosophy · Public Administration
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |