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| Title: | 'Some are More White than Others': Racial Chauvinism as a Factor in Rhodesian Immigration Policy, 1890 to 1963 |
| Author: | Mlambo, Alois S. |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Periodical: | Zambezia (ISSN 0379-0622) |
| Volume: | 27 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 139-160 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic terms: | Zimbabwe Southern Africa United Kingdom |
| Subjects: | immigration colonists Europeans colonialism Ethnic and Race Relations History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Politics and Government Urbanization and Migration History, Archaeology Race discrimination Emigration and immigration Whites imperialism history Interethnic relations |
| External link: | https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/AJA03790622_5 |
| Abstract: | Despite the outward semblance of unity, the white community in Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) was deeply divided by, amongst others, racism and cultural chauvinism which emanated mostly from the settlers of British stock, evoking equally strong reactions from other white groups in the country such as Afrikaners. The racist attitudes of the politically, economically and numerically dominant British settlers were clearly evident in Rhodesia's immigration policy up to the Federation with Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1953, and this frustrated the efforts of thousands of would-be non-British white settlers, such as Poles, Afrikaners, Jews, and Greeks, to enter and settle in the country. As a result the Rhodesian white population remained small throughout the period under review (1890-1963). While the original colonizers and their governments cherished the dream of building Rhodesia as a white man's country, the dream was never fulfilled because of Rhodesia's failure to attract large numbers of white settlers. Notes, ref., sum. |
