The white minority strongly resisted African majority rule and during the 1940's the Afrikaner National Party sought to mobilize Afrikaner opinion. ... The white minority, fearing African majority rule, voted the National Party into office in 1948's whites-only general election. ... The Group Areas Act allocated 87% of the land to the white minority of 4 million people and 13% to the black majority of 20 million people. ...

• Word Count: 2509
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His presidency commenced in 1994 when the ANC overwhelmingly won the majority of voters. ... This rally demonstrated the harshness of the whites rule on black citizens. ... Basic principles of democracy include free elections, citizen participation, majority representation, freedom and equality, all of which were violated during the reign of apartheid systems in South Africa and America. ... In South Africa, black citizens outnumbered whites by an astonishing 8 million, while in America, white citizens made up the majority of the population. In America, the majority of the citizens (the whi...

• Word Count: 1517
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This was an incredible accomplishment for people whose lives were ruled by forced labor. ... Although the masters claimed that these ideas were formulated in order justify slavery's use to the non-slaveholders, Genovese argues that every human has at least some trace of decency, and that a majority of these philosophies were created so that the masters did not feel guilty. ...

• Word Count: 906
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Since the majority of the community worked menial jobs and could not read, they issued poll taxes and literacy tests to increase their prevention of freed slaves voting. ... Chesnutt makes specific reference to three monumental forms of racial discrimination and immense Black hatred that permeated the South: the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan in Wilmington (Wellington), the "American habit of lynching" and the separate car rule. ... While on a much lighter note, the third and final demonstration of discrimination and hatred towards the black community of Wilmington (Wellington), the separate ca...

• Word Count: 1273
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Fanon strongly believed that in order to capture and rule over the natives, colonizers used physical and psychological violence. ... "They want to command, but those who have to obey commands, do not want guns; and these are in a majority throughout the world" (Gandhi, P.25). ... As a result of Gandhi's instruction, Indians began to envision a sovereign state without European rule through peaceful ways. ...

• Word Count: 1171
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In 1883, furthermore, it ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment did not prevent individuals, as opposed to states, from practicing discrimination. ... Dubois's point and according to him the collective opinion of the majority of the Black community, was that self-respect was more important than any potential future economic benefits. ... In his mind, this step was as good as the Black community telling the white community that blacks would stop pretending to be equal to whites as human beings; rather, they would accept an inferior social status as being worthy of maintaining the white major...

• Word Count: 1390
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Witnesses and forensic evidence suggest that the officers fired a second round of shots after a brief pause and that Diallo's body absorbed a majority of the bullets after having hit the ground. ...

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Thomas notes in his theory of "Definition of the Situation" that, "the child is always born into a group of people among whom all the general types of situation which may arise have already been defined and corresponding rules of conduct developed, and where he has not the slightest chance of making his definitions and following his wishes without interference. ... In order to understand the nature of context in a given situation that an individual is operating in, one must also understand the different rules that shape and define the environment of that context. ... Through her experiences w...

• Word Count: 2352
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Television has become a viable affiliate in majority households in the United States. ... Whether we understand the adverse effects of Television have on our brains or not, media has the authority to rule society. ...

• Word Count: 1272
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DE-FACTO SEGREGATION Even though in the United States, the "Separate but Equal" doctrine of the Jim Crow laws was efficiently abolished after the Supreme Court ruled that it was a direct violation of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1954 (Encyclopædia Britannica), the characters of "A Time to Kill", living in the fictional southern town of Clanton, almost naturally frequent localities where they meet their own race. ... 'CME' stands for Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, a branch of the methodist believe founded by former slaves in 1870, which up until today descr...

• Word Count: 4938
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Although these statistics may have seemed compelling for an argument against affirmative action use, the Supreme Court ruled that Michigan Law School was still allowed to consider race in its applicants for the sake of obtaining the educational benefits that come with a diverse student body. ...

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Several historians have formed a "Missouri thesis," which traces the Mormons" belief in black racial inferiority to the period in history when the majority of members of the Mormon Church resided in the slave state of Missouri. ...

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An important aspect of such actions was that they constituted part if a movement that politically conscious policy makers began to consider when examining U.S. foreign policy toward minority white-ruled governments on the African continent (Schraeder, U.S. ... With this new attention firmly placed upon the actions of governments with minority white rule, American policies took a public shift in policy due to pressures from growing American opposition with the acceptation of their somewhat quiet support of South Africa until the Reagan defeat. ...

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However, the Supreme Court ruled in Regents of the University of California v. ... It obviously hurts the majority, white men in particular, by favoring minority or underrepresented groups over them in hiring and admission into universities. ...

• Word Count: 2072
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One example of oppression comes in the form of deprivation of rights and materials, which basically means that someone is not allowed the same rights to the constitutional law, rules, and anything of equal status when it comes to legality. ... Even when the colored families can afford to live in the same neighborhood as white people if the majority of the occupants were white. ...

• Word Count: 1567
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate