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165 cultural, and economic power whites have over Blacks, plus the fact of overwhelming population ratio, the enduring white hostility to Blacks? He attributes this hostility to the acquisition of rigid behavioral patterns among whites which are linked to Anglo cultural traits e.g., psychological traits as impulse control, denial restriction, and a strong sense of sobriety and industriousness. I can accept all of the above under the rubric of a need to control and dominate, and there is a body of literature to cite on this issue. Above all, I agree with the author's contention that whites are still respon- ding to images, symbols and fantasies about Blacks which were constructed during the last quarter of the nineteenth century to justify placing the Black population in a state of neo-slavery. Baker obviously places the cultural above the economic sphere. This model has validity, especially among some marxists such as Lukas and Gramsci. The model states that though economics created cultural motifs, the latter have taken on an independent existence which now flow back to shape and determine the economic. A similar point is made by Baker when he writes that "racism, as an ideology, persisted largely independent of
Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1991
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