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Joseph Lelyveld, Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White, New York: Times Books, 1985, 390 pp. Hard cover $18.95 Paperback $7.95

Joseph Lelyveld, Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White, New York: Times Books, 1985,... 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 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) Brill

Joseph Lelyveld, Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White, New York: Times Books, 1985, 390 pp. Hard cover $18.95 Paperback $7.95

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1991 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0021-9096
eISSN
1568-5217
DOI
10.1163/156852191X00228
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Abstract

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

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Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies)Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1991

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